G-1.04 - Act establishing the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Regional Government

Section 12 Disposition versions

2024-09-06

12. A council member may participate remotely in a meeting by a means allowing all persons who participate in or attend the meeting to see and hear each other in real time.

Remote participation is allowed only if the member participates in the meeting from a location situated in Québec or in a bordering province.

The minutes of the meeting must mention the name of any council member who participated in the meeting remotely.

If a majority of the council members participate in a meeting remotely, the Regional Government must make a video recording of the meeting and make it available to the public from the working day following the day on which the meeting ended.

Despite the first paragraph, the Regional Government must, every year, hold at least two meetings in which the council members participate in person; one of those meetings is to be held in the territory of a Cree community and the other in the territory of an enclosed municipality or a locality. However, a member’s remote participation in either of the meetings is allowed in the following cases:

(1)  for a reason related to the member’s safety or health, or the safety or health of a close relation, provided that, where a health reason is invoked, a medical certificate attests that remote participation by the member is necessary;

(2)  because of a deficiency causing a significant and persistent disability that constitutes a barrier to the member’s participation in person in the meeting; or

(3)  because of the member’s pregnancy or the birth or adoption of the member’s child.

2013, c. 19, s. 12; 2024, c. 24, s. 156.

2014-01-01

12. A member of the council may take part in deliberations and vote at a meeting of the council from a separate location, by telephone or other means of communication, provided that the means of communication used enables all persons participating in the meeting to hear one another.

A member of the council may exercise this right only if the chair, or the person replacing the chair, and the clerk are present at the location in which the meeting is being held and, in the case of a regular meeting, if there is a quorum at that location.

The minutes of the meeting must mention the names of the members who participate in such a manner and the means of communication used; these members are deemed to be present at the meeting.

2013, c. 19, s. 12.