C-11 - Charter of the French language

Section 55.1 Disposition versions

2022-06-01

55.1. The following documents must be drawn up in French:

(1)  a contract for the sale or exchange of part or all of a chiefly residential immovable comprising fewer than five dwellings or of a fraction of a chiefly residential immovable that is the subject of an agreement or declaration referred to in articles 1009 to 1109 of the Civil Code;

(2)  a promise to enter into the contract referred to in subparagraph 1;

(3)  the preliminary contract provided for in article 1785 of that Code; and

(4)  the memorandum provided for in article 1787 of that Code.

The contracts and other documents referred to in the first paragraph may be drawn up exclusively in a language other than French at the express wish of the parties.

This section does not apply to the contracts and other documents referred to in section 55.

2022, c. 14, s. 46.