C-65.1 - Act respecting contracting by public bodies

Section 21.48.31 Disposition versions

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21.48.31. In addition to the other regulatory powers provided for in this chapter, the Government may, by regulation,

(1)  exclude from the application of all or part of the provisions of Division II requests for payment based on certain grounds for claims and any contract or subcontract, including those with certain characteristics, such as a specific manner in which they are to be carried out;

(2)  make public bodies and enterprises that are parties to contracts the Government determines subject to the application of all or part of the provisions of Division II, provided those contracts are related to contracts or subcontracts referred to in that division;

(3)  determine, for the purposes of the provisions of Division III, the rules relating to the dispute settlement process before a third-person decider, including the selection of the third person and the latter’s duties, obligations, functions and powers within the scope of such a process, and the rules relating to the decision rendered at the end of such a process and to the payment, by the parties to a dispute submitted to such a third person, of the latter’s fees and expenses and those of the witnesses, experts or any other person involved in the process; and

(4)  determine any other rule necessary for the application or the purposes of the provisions of this chapter, including, where applicable, rules relating to the effects and the end of the suretyship and to the existence, preservation and extinction of legal hypothecs in favour of persons having participated in the construction or renovation of an immovable.

2022, c. 18, s. 111.