251. The associations of employees certified in accordance with the provisions of the Labour Code (chapter C-27) which represented groups of employees of a dissolved former public transit authority or former intermunicipal transit authority on the 31 December 2001 shall continue to represent those employees at the new transit authority until the expiry of the collective agreements in force at the time of the transfer.
Such associations of employees shall also represent the future employees of the new transit authority, according to the group to which they belong, until the expiry of the collective agreements referred to in the first paragraph.
The provisions of such collective agreements continue to apply to the employees of the new transit authority to the extent that they are applicable to them, until their date of expiry.