195. The Société may make regulations for the purposes of Titles I and II
(1) to specify or to restrict the meaning of the definition of the expression “person resident in Québec”;
(2) to define, for the purposes of subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 10, the expression “a device that can be operated independently”;
(3) to define, for the purposes of the definition of “public highway” in section 1 and of subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 10, the words “farm tractor”, “farm trailer”, “specialized vehicle” and “drawn machinery”;
(4) to define, for the purposes of the definition of “public highway” in section 1 and of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 10, the words “snowmobile” and “vehicle intended for use off a public highway”;
(4.1) to define, for the purposes of subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 10, the expressions “motor-assisted bicycle”, “motorized mobility aid” and “motorized personal mobility device”;
(5) to specify the cases where and the conditions on which an employment is deemed to be full-time, part-time or temporary;
(6) to establish the manner of determining the gross income that a salaried worker or self-employed worker derives from his employment;
(7) to establish the manner of determining the gross income for the purposes of section 17;
(8) to establish the manner of determining the gross income for the purposes of section 21;
(9) to identify classes of employments, determine gross incomes on a weekly or yearly basis corresponding to each class according to work experience and establish the manner of reducing such incomes to take into account the fact that the victim holds a part-time employment, for the purposes of sections 15, 20 and 31;
(9.1) to determine the catastrophic injuries or sequelae and to prescribe rules for evaluating them;
(9.2) to prescribe the method for computing the income replacement indemnity paid under the second and third paragraphs of section 40 and the related rules and terms;
(10) to establish the standards and procedures for determining an employment for a victim for the purposes of sections 45 and 48, identifying classes of employments, determining gross incomes on a yearly or weekly basis corresponding to each class according to work experience, and to establish the manner of reducing such incomes to take into account the fact that a victim holds a part-time employment;
(11) to establish the method for computing the net income of a victim and the amount equivalent to the income tax, the premium and the contribution referred to in section 52;
(11.1) to determine the amount of the lump sum indemnity for funeral expenses referred to in section 70;
(12) to determine the injuries, the functional or cosmetic sequelae and the minimum eligibility requirements applicable to the compensation of non-pecuniary damage under section 73 and to prescribe rules for evaluating non-pecuniary damage and rules for fixing indemnity amounts;
(13) (paragraph replaced);
(14) (paragraph replaced);
(15) to determine the cases and conditions entitling a person to the reimbursement of the expenses referred to in section 83.2 and to fix the maximum amount thereof;
(16) to determine what expenses may be reimbursed to a victim under the second paragraph of section 83.2;
(17) to establish the amounts paid to reimburse the cost of a health professional’s expert report to a person whose application for reconsideration, application for review or proceeding before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec is allowed;
(18) to prescribe conditions and a computation method for the determination of personal home assistance needs and the amount to be reimbursed and to prescribe the cases in which and the conditions subject to which the Société may replace the reimbursement of expenses by an equivalent weekly allowance;
(18.1) to determine the maximum reimbursement amounts for expenses incurred by a victim for personal assistance referred to in section 79;
(19) to prescribe the cases and conditions which give entitlement to the reimbursement of expenses or an availability allowance and to determine the maximum amount of such reimbursement and allowance;
(20) to determine the rules that a person applying for compensation must observe;
(21) to determine the rules that a health professional must observe when examining a person at the request of the Société;
(22) (paragraph repealed);
(23) to determine the conditions on which the Société may authorize the transmission of a document by means of a magnetic medium or an electronic system;
(24) to determine the rules of procedure applicable to the examination of matters under the jurisdiction of the Société;
(25) to determine the manner in which a person’s debt may be deducted from any sum due to that person by the Société;
(26) (paragraph repealed);
(27) to determine the indemnity provided for in section 80, which may vary according to the number of persons contemplated in the first paragraph of that section, and to prescribe in what cases and on what conditions the indemnity is adjusted according to the variation in that number of persons;
(27.1) to determine the maximum amounts up to which the expenses referred to in section 83 may be reimbursed, which may vary according to the number of persons contemplated in the first paragraph of that section, and to prescribe in what cases and on what conditions the reimbursement is adjusted according to the variation in that number of persons;
(28) to define, for the purposes of the second paragraph of section 48, the expressions “employment normally available” and “region where the victim resides”;
(29) to prescribe the cases and conditions in which and on which the income replacement indemnity contemplated in section 83.30 may be adjusted according to variations in the number of dependants;
(30) to prescribe the terms and conditions of payment to dependants of the indemnity contemplated in section 83.30;
(31) to determine the standards and methods allowing the computation of the number of offences or the number of demerit points to be taken into account and limiting the period to be taken into consideration in fixing or computing insurance contributions under sections 151, 151.2 and 151.3;
(32) to determine the standards and methods permitting to limit the period to be taken into consideration in fixing or computing insurance contributions under sections 151, 151.2 and 151.3;
(33) to determine the professional orders whose members are health professionals for the purposes of Chapter VI of Title II;
(34) to prescribe rules, conditions and a method applicable to the computation of a single-payment indemnity paid under section 83.22;
(35) to prescribe cases requiring the payment of interest by the Société;
(36) to determine rules governing the application of Chapter II of Title IV as well as rules for the determination of the deductibles provided for in sections 145 and 148 and to prescribe the reimbursement of other expenses to victims, the maximum amount that may be so reimbursed and the conditions for reimbursement.
1977, c. 68, s. 195; 1982, c. 59, s. 36; 1986, c. 91, s. 663; 1989, c. 15, s. 15; 1990, c. 19, s. 11; 1990, c. 83, s. 249; 1991, c. 58, s. 22; 1997, c. 43, s. 57; 1999, c. 40, s. 26; 1999, c. 22, s. 38; 2018, c. 7, s. 176; 2022, c. 13, s. 17.
