4 AVRIL 2006. - An Act to amend section 43 of the Acts on the Use of Languages in Administrative Matters, contacted on July 18, 1966 (1)

ALBERT II, King of the Belgians,
To all, present and to come, Hi.
The Chambers adopted and We sanction the following:
Article 1^er. This Act regulates a matter referred to in Article 78 of the Constitution.
Art. 2. Section 43 of the Acts on the Use of Languages in Administrative Matters, coordinated on 18 July 1966, amended by the Acts of 19 October 1998, 27 December 2004 and 20 July 2005, are amended as follows:
1° in § 2, paragraph 1^er, the words "holders of a management function or a managerial or coated function" are inserted between the words "public servants" and the words "of a rank of rank 13";
2° in § 3, paragraph 1^er, the words "for management functions and for managerial functions as well as" are inserted between the word "However," and the words "for ranks 13";
3° in the Dutch text of § 3, paragraph 4, the word "rangen" is replaced by the word "graden";
4° in § 3, paragraph 4, the words "or management functions or supervision functions" are inserted between the words "or classes" and the words "constituting the same degree of hierarchy";
5° § 3, paragraph 6, is replaced by the following paragraph:
"After consultation with the same Commission, the King may, by a reasoned and deliberate order in the Council of Ministers, derogate from the distribution rule referred to in paragraph 1^er, second sentence, in favour of central services whose functions or activities are of unequal interest to the French-language region and the Dutch-language region. ";
6° § 6 is replaced by the following provision:
"When the head of an administration is unilingual, he is placed alongside him, in order to maintain the unity of jurisprudence, a bilingual deputy. The deputy may not belong to the same role as the chief. It is precluded in the same grade or grade immediately below or in the same class immediately below.
If the Chief Administrative Officer holds a management position, the Bilingual Assistant retains its rank or class and receives an allowance fixed by the King by order deliberately in Council of Ministers.
The appointment of the bilingual deputy ends at the same time as the mandate assigned to the unilingual chief of the administration to which he is placed."
Promulgation of this law, let us order that it be clothed with the seal of the State and published by the Belgian Monitor.
Given in Brussels on 4 April 2006.
ALBERT
By the King:
Minister of Public Service,
C. DUPONT
Seal of the state seal:
The Minister of Justice,
Ms. L. ONKELINX
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Notes
(1) See:
House of Representatives documents: 51-2179
No. 001 Bill
N° 002 Report
N° 003 Text corrected by the Commission
Full report No. 193: 16 February 2006
N° 004 Amendment
No. 005 Supplementary report
N° 006 Text adopted by the Commission
N° 007 Text adopted in plenary and transmitted to the Senate
Full report No. 194: 23 February 2006
Documents of the Senate
No. 3-1591/1 Project not referred to by the Senate.