For the purposes of applying the Framework Policy for the Governance of Major Infrastructure Projects, public bodies are those defined in Section 8 of the Act respecting Infrastructure Québec (2009, c. 53), namely:
1° government departments;
2° bodies all or part of whose expenditures are provided for in the budgetary estimates tabled in the National Assembly otherwise than under a transferred appropriation;
3° bodies whose personnel is appointed in accordance with the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1);
4° bodies a majority of whose members or directors are appointed by the Government or by a minister and at least half of whose expenditures are borne directly or indirectly by the consolidated revenue fund;
5° school boards, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l'île de Montréal, general and vocational colleges, and university institutions referred to in paragraphs 1 to 11 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1);
6° health and social services agencies and public institutions referred to in the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2), legal persons and joint procurement groups referred to in section 383 of that Act, the Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5), health communication centres within the meaning of the Act respecting pre-hospital emergency services (chapter S-6.2) and the Corporation d'hébergement du Québec;
7° Agence métropolitaine de transport; and
8° any other body designated by the government.