38.1.Where the Minister or a public health director obtains personal or non-personal information necessary for carrying out a surveillance plan from a government department or a body that is not a health and social services body within the meaning of the Act respecting health and social services information (chapter R-22.1), the Minister or public health director may enter into an agreement to limit, from among the uses and communications provided for by that Act, those that will be applicable to that information.