12.20. The government digital data manager may entrust a public body with the mandate to circulate open data or a dataset in an open document format.
The public body entrusted with the mandate referred to in the first paragraph acts as an official source of reference data and must, as such, circulate such data or dataset on its website or on another site indicated by the government digital data manager, in accordance with the terms determined by the manager.
The terms may, in particular, pertain to the quality of the data, the required formats for their circulation, the main elements to be documented or other compliance rules. Where the terms include rules for the use of the data or dataset, including any secondary use, the terms are binding on public bodies.
2021, c. 222021, c. 22, s. 71.