26. The bodies and institutions recognized under section 29.1 may use, when writing, both the official language and another language in their documents, the services they provide and the use of their technological means, in their names, their internal communications and their communications with each other, as well as in the notices of meeting, agendas and minutes of their deliberative assemblies. They may also use that other language in their oral communications without having to use the official language at the same time, provided they remain able to comply with section 23.
In the recognized bodies and institutions, two persons may use what language they choose in written communications to one another. However, a body or institution shall, at the request of a person required to consult such a communication in the course of his duties, prepare a French version of it. Moreover, persons may, within those bodies and institutions, use the language of their choice in oral communications with each other.
1977, c. 5, s. 26; 1983, c. 56, s. 6; 1993, c. 40, s. 7; 2000, c. 57, s. 4; 2022, c. 142022, c. 14, s. 1611a.