M-30.001 - Act respecting the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs

Section 15.4.46.2 Disposition versions

2023-07-01

15.4.46.2. When the activities of a department or public body allow the implementation of measures that may be financed by the Fund in accordance with section 15.4.44, the minister responsible for the administration of this Act may enter into an agreement with the minister responsible for that department or with that public body to allow it to debit the sums required for those measures from the Fund.

The minister responsible for the administration of this Act may also entrust a minister or a public body with a mandate to implement, as specified in the mandate, measures relating to the protection, restoration, development and management of water in an area under the latter minister’s or the public body’s responsibility. The minister may also, within the framework of such a mandate, allow the other minister or the public body to debit the sums required for such measures from the Fund.

Every agreement and mandate must be made public and specify the amount that may be debited from the Fund for the fiscal years during which the agreement or mandate will be applicable. An agreement must also specify the measures that may be financed using those sums as well as how the sums are to be distributed among the measures, or leave it up to the minister or the public body who or that is a party to the agreement to distribute the financing among those measures in the manner that is the most efficient. The administrative costs that may be debited from the Fund under such an agreement or mandate must be approved by the minister responsible for the administration of this Act.

The minister or public body concerned is responsible for implementing the measures for which he or it debits sums from the Fund as well as for achieving the objectives set regarding the protection, restoration, development and management of water.

2023, c. 17, s. 4.