1. This Act applies to the health and social services institutions, regional boards and councils to which the Act respecting the process of negotiation of the collective agreements in the public and parapublic sectors (chapter R-8.2) applies. It applies also to every association of employees certified to represent employees of an institution, of a regional board or of a regional council and to the employees represented by it, and to every group of which such an association of employees is a member or to which it belongs, is affiliated or is bound by contract.
It applies, in addition, to every operator of an ambulance service holding a permit issued pursuant to Division VI of the Act respecting medical laboratories, organ, tissue, gamete and embryo conservation, ambulance services and the disposal of human bodies (chapter L-0.2) and to every association of employees certified to represent employees of such an operator, to the employees represented by such an association and to every group of which such an association of employees becomes a member, to which it belongs, with which it is affiliated or to which it is bound by contract.
This Act shall also apply from 17 July 1989 to(1) the Corporation d’urgences-santé de la région de Montréal Métropolitain established by section 149.1 of the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5) in the same manner as to an institution;
(2) every person, other than an institution, every group of such persons or every body responsible for a coordination centre established under section 149.26 of the said Act, in the same manner as to the operator of an ambulance service;
(3) every association of employees that is certified to represent the employees of the employers referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 as well as to the employees represented thereby, and to every group of which such association of employees becomes a member or to which it belongs, is affiliated or is bound by contract.
1986, c. 74, s. 1; 1988, c. 40, s. 1; 1988, c. 47, s. 16; 1992, c. 21, s. 177, s. 375; 1994, c. 23, s. 23; 2001, c. 60, s. 166.