349.1. With a view to improving the accessibility of specialized medical services and after consultation with the regional panel of heads of departments of specialized medicine, an agency may propose to the Minister that an institution in its area of jurisdiction that operates a hospital centre and consents to it be authorized to become associated with one of the following places for the provision, at that place, of certain specialized medical services to users of the institution:(1) a private health facility;
(2) a laboratory governed by the Act respecting medical laboratories, organ, tissue, gamete and embryo conservation, and the disposal of human bodies (chapter L-0.2); or
(3) a specialized medical centre described in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 333.3.
For the purposes of this subdivision, a place mentioned in the first paragraph is to be called an “associated medical clinic”.