23. Where, on 7 July 2022, no service to collect and transport residual materials covered by this Regulation is provided in the territory of a municipal body or Aboriginal community or the service is provided directly by the municipal body or Aboriginal community, a producer must, not later than 18 months prior to 31 December 2024, take steps to enter into a contract for, as a minimum, the collection and transportation of residual materials from residential buildings with less than 9 dwellings in that territory on the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1 to 4 of the first paragraph of section 24 with the minimum content set out in section 25.
If it is impossible for the producer and the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, to enter into the contract referred to in the first paragraph before the date that occurs 12 months prior to 31 December 2024, the second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of section 18 apply, with the necessary modifications.
On the expiry of the time limit provided for in the fifth paragraph of section 18, if it is impossible for the producer and the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, to enter into the contract referred to in the first paragraph, the producer must choose(1) to enter into a contract with any other person that contains, as a minimum, the elements referred to in section 25, to provide the collection and transportation of those materials from the day following 31 December 2024; or
(2) from the day following 31 December 2024, provide itself the collection and transportation of those materials.
In the territory governed by the Kativik Regional Government, the provisions of this section apply only to the obligation set out in subparagraph 1 of the third paragraph of section 12.
973-2022O.C. 973-2022, s. 23; 1365-2023O.C. 1365-2023, s. 1211a.