The francization programmes must take into account the situation of persons nearing retirement or having a long record of service with the civil administration. Every agency of the civil administration must, not later than 180 days after the beginning of its activities, submit to the Office a report including an analysis of the language situation in that agency and an account of the measures it has adopted and those it intends to adopt in view of complying with this Act. The Office shall determine the form of such report and the information it must furnish. If the Office considers the adopted or envisaged measures insufficient, it shall hear the persons concerned and have the documents and information it considers essential forwarded to it. It shall prescribe appropriate correctives, if needed.
Any agency refusing to implement such correctives is guilty of an offence.
For a period of not more than one year, the Office may exempt from the application of any provision of this act any service or agency of the civil administration that requests it, if it is satisfied with the measures taken by that service or agency towards the objectives set by this act and the regulations.