1. In this act,(a) “association of employees” means an association of employees within the meaning of the Labour Code (chapter C-27);
(b) “college” means a college established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29);
(c) “school board” means a regional school board, a Protestant central school board, the Bureau métropolitain des écoles protestantes de Montréal, the Bureau des écoles protestantes de Québec métropolitain, the Commission des écoles catholiques de Québec, the Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal, any school board governed by the Education Act (chapter I-14), and any other similar body designated by the Government for the application of this act;
(d) “collective agreement” means a collective agreement within the meaning of the Labour Code, or any document in lieu thereof or a labour contract within the meaning of the Act respecting the Syndical Plan of the Sûreté du Québec (chapter R-14);
(e) “teacher” means a teacher within the meaning of the Education Act or a member of the teaching staff of a college;
(f) “establishment” means a public establishment within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-5), a private establishment under agreement within the meaning of the said act, a private establishment that has made a contract provided for in section 176 of the said act with the Minister of Social Affairs and any body which furnishes services to an establishment in accordance with the said act and declared by the Government to be classified, for the purposes of this act, with establishments within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services;
(g) “employee-associations group” means any union, federation, corporation or other organization which an association of employees representing persons contemplated by this act joins, or to which it belongs or is affiliated;
(h) “school board group” or “college group” means any association, federation or other organization to which the majority of the school boards for Catholics, of the school boards for Protestants or of the colleges belong, deemed to be representative of these school boards or colleges by the Minister of Education, if it is not already so recognized by law;
(i) “establishments group” means any union, federation, confederation or other organization to which a majority of the establishments of a category belong, deemed by the Minister of Social Affairs to be representative of that category, if it is not already so recognized by law;
(j) “government agency” means any agency contemplated in the Schedule.