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Legislation

Links to legislation on this page are divided into the following categories:

1)   Canada
2)   United States
3)   United Kingdom
4)   Australia | New Zealand | India
5)   Other Countries

1) Canada

The easiest way to find Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial statutes and regulations is to use CanLII and to search by jurisdiction:

• Canada (Federal)
• British Columbia
• Alberta
• Saskatchewan
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Québec
• New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia
• Prince Edward Island
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Yukon
• Northwest Territories
• Nunavut
  

Otherwise, to access legislation directly fro the applicable federal, provincial, or territorial source, see the following chart (adapted from the Bora Laskin Law Library's Canadian Current Legislation):

	Parliaments	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Legislative Business
Can	Parliament	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	> 1998, < 1998	House Publications
BC	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Parliamentary Business
AB	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
SK	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
MB	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Votes & Proceedings
ON	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Status of Business
QC	National Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Proceedings
NB	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
NS	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Part I, Part II	Journals
PE	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
NL	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
NT	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Documents and Proceedings
YK	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	Journals
NU	Legislative Assembly	Debates	Bills	Statutes	Regulations	Gazette	n/a

 

For historical online legislation, click here for a listing from the Bora Laskin Law Library or the Law Society of Ontario's Where to Find Canadian Legislation page or see the following selected sites for older legislation:

• Federal: Canada Gazette (1841 to 1998)
• Alberta: Retrospective Law Collection (1909 to 1990)
• Nova Scotia Revised Statutes (1851-1989)
  
• Ontario: Ontario Statutes (from colonial times to 1999)
• Ontario: Revised Statutes of Ontario (1914 to 1990)
  

For historical federal Parliamentary debates and journals dating from 1867 to the early 1990's, see Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources.

 

For legislation from other jurisdictions, see:

• Law Society of Ontario, Australian & New Zealand Legislation
• Law Society of Ontario, UK & Irish Legislation

Miscellaneous online guides

• Guide to Making Federal Acts and Regulations, 2nd ed
• House of Commons Procedure and Practice, 3rd ed
  
• Amending Bills at Committee and Report Stages in the House of Commons
• Coming Into Force of Federal Legislation (PRB 09-03E) (archived)

Selected Federal statutes dealing with legislation

• Canada Evidence Act, RSC 1985, c C-5
• Interpretation Act, RSC 1985, c I-21
• Publication of Statutes Act, RSC 1985, c S-21
• Statutes Repeal Act, SC 2008, c 20
  
• Statutory Instruments Act, RSC 1985, c S-22

2) United States

Federal

• GPO
• Congress
• US Constitution (Cornell LII)
• US Code (Cornell LII)
• Code of Federal Regulations (Cornell LII)
• Table of Popular Names (Cornell LII)

State

• State Legislative links (Cornell LII)

3) United Kingdom

• UK Legislation
• UK Hansard (1803 - 2005)

4) Australia | New Zealand | India

• Australasian Legal Information Institute
• New Zealand Legal Information Institute
• India Legal Information Institute

5) Other Countries

• WorldLII - List of Countries
• Globalex - List of Country Guides

 

 

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Legal Research and Writing:
4th Edition

by Ted Tjaden

Softcover 512 pgs.
Published: January 2016
ISBNs:
Paperback: 978-1-55221-414-5
e-book: 978-1-55221-415-2

Purchase here

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