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Publication of Ontario Statutes

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3.2 Publication of Ontario Statutes

                  3.2.1 Bills

“G” = Government Bill

“M” = Private Member’s Public Bill

“D” = Committee Bill

“PR” = Private Bill

 

·         The presentation of the cover page is always the same and includes the dates of readings and of royal assent appear depending on the status of the bill.

·         Once the bill receives Royal Assent, it is printed with a chapter number.

N.B. The short title of the law appears in the last section of the bill.

 

                  3.2.2 Parliamentary publications

i. Official report of debates (Hansard) / Legislative Assembly of Ontario, (CA2 ON X1 D23)

N.B. Non-bilingual publication. The texts appear in the language of communication.

Both Hansard and the Votes & Proceedings can be found online.   Coverage is from 1984 to the present.

 

ii. Legislative Assembly of Ontario committee reports. (CA2 ON XC and ff.)

Deliberations of committees studying various bills are published.

Some Committee Reports can be found online.

 

3.2.3 Annual volumes

·   Contain public and private acts adopted by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the year.

·   All acts are published in English and French since 1991.

·   They are organized by chapter number.

·   The user guide found at the beginning of the volume is very useful.

·   The Statutes of Ontario can be found at FTX Statutes, SLR 4-7.

 ·   Ontario statutes are made up of sections which are then divided into subsections. Some sections and subsections also contain clauses or subclauses.

 

 

3.2.4 Revised Statutes of Ontario

The latest revision took place in 1990. Previous revisions took place in 1877, 1887, 1914, 1927, 1937, 1950 and every ten years since up to 1990.

 

The Revised Statutes of Ontario are made up of 12 volumes and an index. The statutes are organized alpha-numerically by their title in English. The first eleven volumes include all public acts adopted before January 1, 1991.

 

                        The twelfth volume includes a number of documents including constitutional laws, a table of repealed statutes, the date of coming into force of a revision, a table of repealed statutes, etc.

 

With the index, you access the statutes by subject and not just by title of the statute.

 

          3.2.5 Coming-into-force

  • The coming into force of Ontario statutes is governed by s. 5 of the Statutes Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.21.
  • Unless otherwise stated in the Act itself, every Act comes into force and takes effect on the sixtieth day after the prorogation of the session of the Legislature at which it was passed or on the sixtieth day after the day of signification, whichever is the later date.
  • Where an Act provides that it is to come into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, or that it is not to come into force until a day to be so named, any such proclamation may apply to the whole or any part or parts or portion or portions or section or sections of the Act, and proclamations may be issued at different times as to any part or parts or portion or portions or section or sections of the Act.
  • An Act comes into force on the date it receives Royal Assent.
  • Consult the Table of proclamations in the most recent annual volumes of statutes. This table is also available through SerivceOntario’s e-Laws site at: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/tables/publicstatutes/elaws_t_pu_st_tprocs.htm.
  • See under “Proclamations” in the biannual index of the Ontario Gazette.
  • During the year, check Canadian Current Law-Legislation.

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