555. A regional board which succeeds a regional health and social services council pursuant to section 554 shall exercise all the functions that are assigned to it by this Act with respect to the same territory as the territory in which the council it succeeds had jurisdiction, notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Act, but, where the case arises, only until the provisions of sections 619.54 to 619.60 apply.
1991, c. 42, s. 555; 1992, c. 21, s. 61.