16. The Government may make regulations:(1) for the organization, administration and discipline of public schools and schools under the control of the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport and for the organization and administration of school boards and regional boards;
(2) for the division of Québec into inspection districts, and for establishing the boundaries of such districts;
(3) for determining the composition of the committees contemplated in section 50 and the terms and conditions for the establishment, operation and financing of such committees and of the committees contemplated in section 52;
(4) for the examination of candidates for the office of school inspector;
(5) for determining a school calendar for the pupils;
(6) for defining what constitutes a pedagogical or educational position;
(7) for the establishment of the pedagogical system in the schools placed under the control of commissioners;
(8) for determining, in all school boards or in particular school boards, the conditions of employment, the recourses and the rights of appeal of members of the personnel who are not members of a certified association.
The regulation respecting the basis of school organization may(1) determine the nature, objectives and organizational framework of education services and the rules governing the evaluation of learning achievement and the certification of studies;
(2) prescribe a date, between the beginning of the school year and 1 January, for the determination of the age of admissibility to education services;
(3) allow the Minister to authorize, upon a substantiated request, that an exception be made to a prescription of the regulations where its application is likely to cause prejudice to a pupil;
(4) allow the Minister to establish the manner in which the rules of certification of studies are applied and to exempt a category of pupils determined by him from the application of those rules;
(5) allow the Minister to effect the gradual implementation of the prescriptions of the regulation concerning the ratio of required subjects to elective subjects and concerning the rules of certification of studies;
(6) allow a school board, on conditions prescribed therein, to exempt a pupil from a subject other than Catholic or Protestant moral and religious values instruction or moral values instruction.
Every regulation made under this section shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec; it shall come into force on the date of its publication or on any later date fixed therein.
R. S. 1964, c. 235, s. 16 (part); 1969, c. 67, s. 1; 1971, c. 67, s. 10; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 80, s. 3; 1982, c. 58, s. 30; 1986, c. 101, s. 1; 1989, c. 36, s. 279; 1990, c. 35, s. 16; 1993, c. 51, s. 72; 1994, c. 16, s. 50; 2005, c. 28, s. 195.