49.1. The Government may exempt all contracts made by a public body from the application of certain provisions of a regulation made under section 49; it may also exempt certain categories of contracts made by a public body from the application of all or some of the provisions of such a regulation.
The public body must have adopted, by by-law, special rules governing the conditions of contracts or categories of contracts so exempted. The by-law has effect only when approved by the Government upon the recommendation of the Conseil du trésor.