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C-11 - Charter of the French language

Section 151
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151. The Office may, with the approval of the Minister of the French Language, and on condition of a notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec, require an enterprise employing less than 50 persons to analyze its language situation and to prepare and implement a francization program.
Where such an enterprise requires a period of time to comply with certain provisions of this Act or of a regulation thereunder, it may request the assistance of the Office and enter into a special agreement with the latter. Within the scope of such an agreement, the Office may, for the period it determines, exempt the enterprise from the application of any provision of this Act or of a regulation thereunder.
The Office shall, every year, make a report to the Minister of the measures taken by the enterprises and the exemptions granted.
1977, c. 5, s. 151; 1993, c. 40, s. 50; 1999, c. 40, s. 45; 2002, c. 28, s. 24; 2022, c. 14, s. 93.
151. The Office may, with the approval of the Minister responsible for the administration of this Act, and on condition of a notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec, require an enterprise employing less than 50 persons to analyze its language situation and to prepare and implement a francization program.
Where such an enterprise requires a period of time to comply with certain provisions of this Act or of a regulation thereunder, it may request the assistance of the Office and enter into a special agreement with the latter. Within the scope of such an agreement, the Office may, for the period it determines, exempt the enterprise from the application of any provision of this Act or of a regulation thereunder.
The Office shall, every year, make a report to the Minister of the measures taken by the enterprises and the exemptions granted.
1977, c. 5, s. 151; 1993, c. 40, s. 50; 1999, c. 40, s. 45; 2002, c. 28, s. 24.
151. The Office may, with the approval of the Minister, and on condition of a notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec, require an enterprise employing less than 50 persons to analyse its language situation and to prepare and implement a francization programme.
Where such an enterprise requires a period of time to comply with certain provisions of this Act or of a regulation thereunder, it may request the assistance of the Office and enter into a special agreement with the latter. Within the scope of such an agreement, the Office may, for the period it determines, exempt the enterprise from the application of any provision of this Act or of a regulation thereunder.
The Office shall, every year, make a report to the Minister of the measures taken by the enterprises and the exemptions granted.
1977, c. 5, s. 151; 1993, c. 40, s. 50; 1999, c. 40, s. 45.
151. The Office may, with the approval of the Minister, and on condition of a notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec, require a business firm employing less than fifty persons to analyse its language situation and to prepare and implement a francization programme.
Where such a firm requires a period of time to comply with certain provisions of this Act or of a regulation thereunder, it may request the assistance of the Office and enter into a special agreement with the latter. Within the scope of such an agreement, the Office may, for the period it determines, exempt the firm from the application of any provision of this Act or of a regulation thereunder.
The Office shall, every year, make a report to the Minister of the measures taken by the firms and the exemptions granted.
1977, c. 5, s. 151; 1993, c. 40, s. 50.
151. The Office may, with the approval of the Minister, and on condition of a notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec, require a business firm employing less than fifty persons to analyse its language situation and to prepare and implement a francization programme.
The Office must make a return to the Minister every year of the representations it has made in this regard and of the measures taken by the business firms.
1977, c. 5, s. 151.
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