8. The deputy minister of a government department or, in the case of a public body referred to in any of subparagraphs 2 to 4 and 6 to 7 of the first paragraph of section 4 or of a body referred to in section 7, the person responsible for its administrative management, is to exercise the functions this Act confers on the chief executive officer of a public body.
The chief executive officer, in the case of a body referred to in subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 4, is the board of directors and, in the case of a school board, the council of commissioners. The board of directors or the council of commissioners may, by regulation, delegate all or part of the functions conferred on the chief executive officer to the executive committee, the director general or, in the case of a university institution, a member of the senior administrative personnel within the meaning of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1).
2006, c. 29, s. 8; 2017, c. 272017, c. 27, s. 921; 2018, c. 102018, c. 10, s. 61.