Official Languages Act

Marginal note:Legislative instruments

• 7 (1) An instrument shall be made in both official languages and, if printed and published, shall be printed and published in both official languages, if it is made in the execution of a legislative power conferred by or under an Act of Parliament and

  • (a) is made by, or with the approval of, the Governor in Council or one or more ministers of the Crown;

  • (b) is required by or under an Act of Parliament to be published in the Canada Gazette; or

  • (c) is of a public and general nature.

• Marginal note:Instruments under prerogative or other executive power

  (2) All instruments made in the exercise of a prerogative or other executive power that are of a public and general nature shall be made in both official languages and, if printed and published, shall be printed and published in both official languages.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (3) Subsection (1) does not, by reason only that the ordinance, by-law, law or other instrument is of a public and general nature, apply to

  • (a) a law made by the Legislature of Yukon, of the Northwest Territories or for Nunavut, or any instrument made under any such law, or

  • (b) a by-law, law or other instrument of an Indian band, band council or other body established to perform a governmental function in relation to an Indian band or other group of aboriginal people.