544. When a school board establishes administrative regions or districts, the parents’ committee contemplated in section 52 shall be replaced for the same purposes by the following committees:(a) a regional parents’ committee at the level of each administrative region or district;
(b) a central parents’ committee consisting of delegates of regional parents’ committees, at the school board.
Notwithstanding section 52.1, the secretary-general of the school board, before 1 June each year, shall call the members of the central parents’ committee to elect the chairman of that committee. Each year, before the third Sunday in November, the secretary-general of the school board shall again convene the members of the central parents’ committee to elect two representatives contemplated in section 535, one for each of the elementary and secondary levels, to sit on the Council of Commissioners and the executive committee. These representatives are elected by the majority vote of the members present.
Section 52.2 applies, with the necessary modifications, to a central parents’ committee and its representatives.
The Government shall determine by regulation the composition, distribution of duties and the terms and conditions of the operating and financing of the above-mentioned committees.
Every regulation made under the preceding paragraph shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec; it shall come into force on the date of its publication or on any later date fixed therein.
1972, c. 60, s. 4; 1979, c. 28, s. 15; 1986, c. 10, s. 45.