2. The Government may, by one or more regulations, adopt by a general reference, without amendment, all the regulations the French text and English version of which were published in the Gazette officielle du Québec.
Every regulation adopted pursuant to the first paragraph comes into force on the day of its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec, but each the provisions of the regulations to which it refers is deemed to have taken effect on the same date as that provided for the corresponding provision of the replaced regulation.
Every regulation adopted by reference pursuant to the first paragraph remains a regulation of the Government or of the person or agency empowered to make that regulation, according to the provisions of the act authorizing it.