5.1. A public body must apply the guidelines, strategies, policies, standards, directives, rules and application instructions made under this Act.
The responsibility for ensuring that that obligation is complied with is incumbent on the chief executive officer of the public body, who must take measures to make the obligation known to the body’s personnel members and to ensure that they comply with it.
For the purposes of this Act, the chief executive officer of the public body is the person having the highest administrative authority, such as the deputy minister, the president, the director general or any other person responsible for the day-to-day management of the body. However, in the case of a public body referred to in subparagraph 4 or 4.1 of the first paragraph of section 2, the chief executive officer of the body is the board of governors or, in the case of a school board governed by the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14), the council of commissioners.
2023, c. 282023, c. 28, s. 21.