F-3 - Civil Service Act

Section 1 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

1. In this act and in all regulations for carrying it out, unless the context otherwise requires,

(1)  “Commission” means the Commission de la fonction publique du Québec;

(2)  “head” means the Minister of the Crown who has charge of a department, and the President of the Assemblée nationale;

(3)  “deputy-head” means the Secretary General of the Conseil exécutif, the deputy minister of each department, the associate deputy ministers of the Ministère de l’éducation, the Executive Secretary of the Prime Minister, the Secretary of the Assemblée nationale, the Superintendent of Insurance, the secretary of the Conseil du trésor, the chairman or the administrator, if any, of each of the bodies contemplated in paragraph 7 of section 2, the Director of Services de protection de l’environnement and, to the extent that such designation is consistent with the functions assigned to him by the Financial Administration Act (chapter A-6), the Auditor-General;

(4)  “deputy minister” means the Secretary General of the Conseil exécutif, the secretary of the Conseil du trésor, the deputy minister of each department, the associate deputy ministers of the Ministère de l’éducation and the associate secretaries-general of the Conseil exécutif contemplated in the third paragraph of section 10 of the Executive Power Act (chapter E-18);

(5)  “civil service” means the aggregate of the positions and offices enumerated in section 2;

(6)  “position under Her Majesty in right of Québec” or “position under the Gouvernement” means a position in the civil service or a position in any body when, by law, the Gouvernement is a party to the negotiation of the provisions of collective agreements that may govern the employees of such body who are employees within the meaning of the Labour Code.

(7)  “functionary” means any employee of the civil service other than a deputy-head or a workman;

(8)  “workmen” includes the watchmen, labourers, charwomen and other persons engaged in manual labour;

(9)  “senior officer” : every officer who is the incumbent of a position contemplated in the second paragraph of section 22;

(10)  “professional group” : any group of persons upon whom the exclusive right to practise a profession is conferred by law;

(11)  “collective agreement” : a collective agreement within the meaning of the Labour Code.

1965 (1st sess.), c. 14, s. 1; 1968, c. 12, s. 2; 1968, c. 9, s. 81, s. 90; 1969, c. 14, s. 19; 1970, c. 17, s. 97, s. 101, s. 102; 1971, c. 11, s. 1; 1972, c. 49, s. 134; 1976, c. 7, s. 3; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.