Official Languages Act

Marginal note:Publication of proposed regulation

• 86 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a copy of each regulation that the Governor in Council proposes to make under a provision of this Act shall be published in the Canada Gazette at least 30 days before its proposed effective date, and a reasonable opportunity shall be afforded to interested persons to make representations to the minister of the Crown who is responsible for the provision with respect to the proposed regulation.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) No proposed regulation need be published under subsection (1) if it has previously been published pursuant to that subsection, whether or not it has been amended as a result of representations made pursuant to that subsection.

• Marginal note:Calculation of 30-day period

  (3) In calculating the 30-day period referred to in subsection (1), only the days on which both Houses of Parliament sit shall be counted.