PART IPROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT

Marginal note:Official languages of Parliament

• 4. (1) English and French are the official languages of Parliament, and everyone has the right to use either of those languages in any debates and other proceedings of Parliament.

• Marginal note:Simultaneous interpretation

  (2) Facilities shall be made available for the simultaneous interpretation of the debates and other proceedings of Parliament from one official language into the other.

• Marginal note:Official reports

  (3) Everything reported in official reports of debates or other proceedings of Parliament shall be reported in the official language in which it was said and a translation thereof into the other official language shall be included therewith.

PART IILEGISLATIVE AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS

Marginal note:Journals and other records

5. The journals and other records of Parliament shall be made and kept, and shall be printed and published, in both official languages.

Marginal note:Acts of Parliament

6. All Acts of Parliament shall be enacted, printed and published in both official languages.

Marginal note:Legislative instruments

• 7. (1) Any instrument made in the execution of a legislative power conferred by or under an Act of Parliament that

  • (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 pursuant to an Act of Parliament to be published in the Canada Gazette, or

  • (c) is 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: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 apply to

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

  by reason only that the ordinance, by-law, law or other instrument is of a public and general nature.