NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Thirty-third Legislature, second session

1988, chapter 54

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTER
OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE

Bill 178
Introduced by Mr Guy Rivard, Minister for Cultural Affairs
Introduced 19 December 1988
Passage in principle 21 December 1988
Passage 21 December 1988
Assented to 22 December 1988

Coming into force: 22 December 1988

Act amended:
Charter of the French language (R.S.Q., chapter C-11)


CHAPTER 54

An Act to amend the Charter of the French language

[Assented to 22 December 1988]

THE PARLIAMENT OF QUÉBEC ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:

1. Section 58 of the Charter of the French language (R.S.Q., chapter C-11) is replaced by the following sections:

2. Section 59 of the said Charter is replaced by the following section:

3. Section 60 of the said Charter is repealed.

4. Section 61 of the said Charter is replaced by the following section:

5. Section 62 of the said Charter is amended

6. Section 68 of the said Charter is amended

7. Section 69 of the said Charter is repealed.

8. Every owner of a public sign or poster, advertisement, illuminated sign, billboard or other advertising material that conforms with the provisions of the Charter of the French language relating to public signs and posters and commercial advertising as they read on 14 December 1988, and every person who has placed any of them or caused any of them to be placed, has until 22 December 1990 to bring it into conformity with the new provisions enacted by this Act respecting public signs and posters and commercial advertising.

9. The provisions of the Regulation respecting the language of commerce and business (R.R.Q., 1981, C-11, r.9) made pursuant to section 58 of the Charter of the French language, as they read on 14 December 1988, are deemed made pursuant to section 58.2 enacted by section 1 of this Act.

10. The provisions of section 58 and those of the first paragraph of section 68, enacted by sections 1 and 6, respectively, of this Act, shall operate notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph b of section 2 or section 15 of the Constitution Act, 1982 (Schedule B to the Canada Act, chapter 11 in the 1982 volume of the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom) and apply despite sections 3 and 10 of the Charter of human rights and freedoms (R.S.Q., chapter C-12).

11. The provisions of this Act come into force on 22 December 1988.