﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Statute bill-origin="commons" bill-type="govt-public" xml:lang="en" in-force="yes" startdate="20050401"><Identification Code="id=&quot;&quot;" hasPreviousVersion="true"><LongTitle Code="id=&quot;&quot;,lt=&quot;&quot;">An Act respecting public officers</LongTitle><ShortTitle status="official" Code="id=&quot;&quot;,st=&quot;&quot;">Public Officers Act</ShortTitle><RunningHead>Public Officers</RunningHead><BillHistory><Stages stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2013</YYYY><MM>01</MM><DD>28</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter Code="id=&quot;&quot;,ch=&quot;&quot;"><ConsolidatedNumber official="yes" Code="id=&quot;&quot;,ch=&quot;&quot;,cn=&quot;&quot;">P-31</ConsolidatedNumber></Chapter></Identification><Body><Heading Code="ga=&quot;s_1&quot;,h1=&quot;&quot;" level="1"><TitleText Code="ga=&quot;s_1&quot;,h1=&quot;&quot;,t1=&quot;&quot;">SHORT TITLE</TitleText></Heading><Section Code="se=&quot;1&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;1&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Short title</MarginalNote><Label>1.</Label><Text>This Act may be cited as the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="P-31">Public Officers Act</XRefExternal>.</Text><HistoricalNote><ul><li>R.S., c. P-30, s. 1.</li></ul></HistoricalNote></Section><Section Code="se=&quot;2&quot;"><Label>2.</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 146]</Repealed></Text></Section><Heading Code="ga=&quot;s_3&quot;,h1=&quot;&quot;" level="1"><TitleText Code="ga=&quot;s_3&quot;,h1=&quot;&quot;,t1=&quot;&quot;">COMMISSIONS</TitleText></Heading><Section Code="se=&quot;3&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;3&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Regulations</MarginalNote><Label>3.</Label><Text>The Governor in Council may make regulations declaring and determining what dignitaries, officers or classes of officers, or persons in the federal public administration, appointed under orders in council shall receive commissions under the Great Seal or under the Privy Seal, and what fee shall be paid thereon, and commissions may be issued under this section to the dignitaries, officers and persons who have not received and are declared to be entitled to receive them.</Text><HistoricalNote><ul><li>R.S., 1985, c. P-31, s. 3;</li><li> 2003, c. 22, s. 224(E).</li></ul></HistoricalNote><a startdate="20021231">Previous Version</a></Section><Section Code="se=&quot;4&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;4&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Registrations and publication</MarginalNote><Label>4.</Label><Text>Commissions issued under section 3 shall be recorded in the office of the Registrar General of Canada and notice of the appointments shall be inserted in the <XRefExternal reference-type="other" link="gazette">Canada Gazette</XRefExternal> by the Registrar General of Canada, and a list of the commissions issued during the year shall be laid before Parliament within the first fifteen days of its next ensuing session in each year.</Text><HistoricalNote><ul><li>R.S., c. P-30, s. 4.</li></ul></HistoricalNote></Section><Section Code="se=&quot;5&quot;"><Label>5. to 32.</Label><Text><Repealed>[Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 146]</Repealed></Text></Section></Body><Schedule spanlanguages="no" bilingual="no" Code="sc=&quot;&quot;,nb=&quot;1&quot;"><ScheduleFormHeading><Label>SCHEDULE</Label></ScheduleFormHeading><Repealed>[Repealed, 1992, c. 1, s. 146]</Repealed></Schedule></Statute>