Official Languages (Communications with and Services to the Public) Regulations

9 For the purposes of paragraph 24(1)(a) of the Act, the circumstances that relate to the location of an office or facility of a federal institution are the following:

• (a) where the office or facility is located in a park as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canada National Parks Act or on land set aside as a national historic site under section 42 of that Act and the office or facility does not provide the services referred to in paragraph (b);

• (b) where the office or facility is located in a park or on land referred to in paragraph (a), the office or facility is one of two or more offices or facilities in the park or on the land that provide the services of a post office and those services are not available in both official languages at at least one of those offices or facilities;

• (c) where the office or facility is located in such proximity to a park or land referred to in paragraph (a) that it provides specific services for visitors to the park or land and those services are not available in that park or on that land;

• (d) where the office or facility is located in the Yukon Territory, serves the public generally and, of all offices or facilities of the institution in the Yukon Territory, is the office or facility at which over a year there is the greatest number of persons using the French language to request services;

• (e) where the office or facility is located in the Northwest Territories, serves the public generally and, of all offices or facilities of the institution in the Northwest Territories, is the office or facility at which over a year there is the greatest number of persons using the French language to request services; and

• (f) where the office or facility is located in Nunavut, serves the public generally and, of all offices or facilities of the institution in Nunavut, is the office or facility at which during a year there is the greatest number of persons using the French language to request services.