O-3 - Act respecting the Office de planification et de développement du Québec

Section 2 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

2. The functions and powers of the Bureau shall be:

(a)  to prepare on behalf of the government plans, programs and projects for economic, social and territorial development, with a view to a better utilization of the economic and human resources and taking into account the peculiarities of the regions of Québec;

(b)  to obtain from the government departments and bodies the available information respecting their policies, programs, projects and achievements and any other statistical data or information which it deems necessary or useful for the pursuit of its objects;

(c)  to execute or cause to be executed, for the purposes contemplated in paragraphs a and b, research, studies, inquiries and inventories;

(d)  to co-ordinate the research, studies, inquiries and inventories executed by other government departments and bodies;

(e)  to advise the Government on policies and programs prepared by government departments and bodies in order to promote the co-ordination thereof;

(f)  to make recommendations to the Government on any matter respecting which it has executed or caused to be executed research, studies, inquiries or inventories;

(g)  to act as a co-ordinating agency between the government departments and bodies in the implementation of the plans, programs and projects for economic and social development which concern several government departments or bodies and which are indicated to it by the Government;

(h)  to assume the direction and ensure the carrying out of any plan, program or project for economic and social development, including any plan, program or project for agricultural and rural development, the carrying out of which is entrusted to it by the Government.

(i)  to administer the funds entrusted to it for the purposes of exercising the functions and powers contemplated in paragraph h and to dispose thereof in the manner indicated by the Government.

1968, c. 14, s. 2; 1969, c. 16, s. 3; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.