6. The Deputy Minister, the Assistant Deputy Minister for school networks and the Director General for the financing and equipment of primary and secondary educational institutions are each authorized to exercise, in the place of the Minister, the following powers and functions:(1) giving prior authorization to a school board to enter into certain agreements, in accordance with the second paragraph of section 267 of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3);
(2) authorizing a school board or the Conseil scolaire de l’île de Montréal to hypothecate or demolish its immovables and to borrow money, requiring that they provide any information concerning their financial situation, and determining the terms and conditions of loans, in accordance with sections 272, 288, 289 and 423 of that Act;
(3) determining the date of transmission and the form of the operating, investment and debt service budgets of the school boards and of the Conseil scolaire de l’île de Montréal, in accordance with sections 277 and 445 of that Act, and determining the date before which the Cree and Kativik school boards are required to submit their operating, investment and debt service budgets, in accordance with section 339 of the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14), as it read on 8 June 1978;
(4) determining the dates of transmission and the form of the interim reports on the financial situation of the school boards, in accordance with section 282 of the Education Act;
(5) determining the manner and the forms that apply to the keeping of the accounting records of the school boards, in accordance with section 283 of that Act;
(6) determining the time of transmission and the form of the annual financial statements of the school boards, in accordance with section 287 of that Act;
(7) fixing the equalization grant of the school boards, in accordance with section 475 of that Act;
(8) granting, on the terms and conditions he determines, a subsidy for the payment of a loan, in accordance with the first paragraph of section 476 of that Act;
(9) depositing with the Minister of Finance sums intended for the repayment of the principal of a loan in respect of which a subsidy has been granted under section 476 of the Education Act, in order to constitute a sinking fund, in accordance with the third paragraph of section 476 or the first paragraph of section 477.1 of that Act;
(10) determining the time of transmission and the form of the financial statements of private institutions dispensing services for preschool, elementary or secondary school education, in accordance with section 65 of the Act respecting private education;
(11) previously approving or providing the plans and specifications for work on an immovable of the Cree School Board or the Kativik School Board, in accordance with section 235 of the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons, as it read on 8 June 1978.