219. Subject to section 220, an integrated health and social services centre or, in the regions having more than one integrated centre, the one resulting from the amalgamation of the agency and other institutions is responsible for the payroll service activities of the region’s public institutions and the information assets those institutions use.
The integrated centre acquires all the movable property relating to those activities as well as all resulting obligations, including those relating to leases. The staff and budget transferred in connection with those activities may not be smaller than those established as at 1 April 2014.
If transferring the activities to an integrated centre makes it necessary to transfer an immovable, the transferor institution must agree with the integrated centre on the transfer.
The information assets owned by a public institution are transferred to the integrated centre in the region that is responsible for them, with all the related rights and obligations.
An institution must release the information necessary to implement this section to the integrated centre concerned.
Nothing in this section transfers ownership to the integrated centre of the personal information contained in the information assets or modifies the confidentiality rules that apply to it.