﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Statute lims:pit-date="2017-09-21" hasPreviousVersion="true" lims:lastAmendedDate="2017-09-21" lims:current-date="2019-06-21" lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344512" lims:id="344512" bill-origin="commons" bill-type="private-public" xml:lang="en" in-force="yes" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344513" lims:id="344513"><BillNumber>C-419</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>1</Session><Number>41</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>60-61-62</Year-s><Monarch>Elizabeth II</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2011-2012-2013</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344514" lims:id="344514">An Act respecting language skills</LongTitle><ShortTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344515" lims:id="344515" status="official">Language Skills Act</ShortTitle><RunningHead lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344516" lims:id="344516">Language Skills</RunningHead><BillHistory lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344517" lims:id="344517"><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2019</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>22</DD></Date></Stages><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344519" lims:id="344519" stage="assented-to"><Date><YYYY>2013</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>26</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344520" lims:id="344520"><ConsolidatedNumber official="no">L-6.2</ConsolidatedNumber><AnnualStatuteId><AnnualStatuteNumber>36</AnnualStatuteNumber><YYYY>2013</YYYY></AnnualStatuteId></Chapter><BillRefNumber date-time="2012-03-06">411598</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344521" lims:id="344521"><Enacts lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344522" lims:id="344522"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344523" lims:id="344523" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344524" lims:id="344524"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344525" lims:id="344525" level="1"><TitleText>Short Title</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:lastAmendedDate="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344526" lims:id="344526"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344527" lims:id="344527">Short title</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>This act may be cited as the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="L-6.2">Language Skills Act</XRefExternal>.</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2013-06-26" lims:fid="344528" lims:id="344528" level="1"><TitleText>Language Skills</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:lastAmendedDate="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344529" lims:id="344529"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344530" lims:id="344530">Requirements</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>Any person appointed to any of the following offices must, at the time of his or her appointment, be able to speak and understand clearly both official languages:</Text><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344531" lims:id="344531"><Label>(a)</Label><Text>the Auditor General of Canada, appointed pursuant to subsection 3(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="A-17">Auditor General Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344532" lims:id="344532"><Label>(b)</Label><Text>the Chief Electoral Officer, appointed pursuant to subsection 13(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="E-2.01">Canada Elections Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344533" lims:id="344533"><Label>(c)</Label><Text>the Commissioner of Official Languages for Canada, appointed pursuant to subsection 49(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="O-3.01">Official Languages Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344534" lims:id="344534"><Label>(d)</Label><Text>the Privacy Commissioner, appointed pursuant to subsection 53(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-21">Privacy Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344535" lims:id="344535"><Label>(e)</Label><Text>the Information Commissioner, appointed pursuant to subsection 54(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="A-1">Access to Information Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344536" lims:id="344536"><Label>(f)</Label><Text>the Senate Ethics Officer, appointed pursuant to section 20.1 of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-1">Parliament of Canada Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344537" lims:id="344537"><Label>(g)</Label><Text>the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, appointed pursuant to subsection 81(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-1">Parliament of Canada Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344538" lims:id="344538"><Label>(h)</Label><Text>the Commissioner of Lobbying, appointed pursuant to subsection 4.1(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="L-12.4">Lobbying Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344539" lims:id="344539"><Label>(i)</Label><Text>the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, appointed pursuant to subsection 39(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-31.9">Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344540" lims:id="344540"><Label>(j)</Label><Text>the President of the Public Service Commission, appointed pursuant to subsection 4(5) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-33.01">Public Service Employment Act</XRefExternal>;</Text></Paragraph><Paragraph lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344541" lims:id="344541"><Label>(k)</Label><Text>the Parliamentary Budget Officer, appointed under subsection 79.1(1) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-1">Parliament of Canada Act</XRefExternal>.</Text></Paragraph><HistoricalNote><HistoricalNoteSubItem lims:inforce-start-date="2017-09-21" lims:fid="344543" lims:id="344543">2013, c. 36, s. 2; 2017, c. 20, s. 190</HistoricalNoteSubItem></HistoricalNote></Section></Body></Statute>