Justice Laws Website

Welcome to the Justice Laws Website, the online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada. This website provides access to federal Acts and regulations in both official languages, both language versions being equally authoritative.

The consolidations are generally updated every two weeks.

Site Features

The site provides several important features.

  • As of 2009-06-01, all consolidated Acts and regulations are "official"
  • A side-by-side bilingual PDF version of consolidated Acts and regulations
  • Point-in-time access to consolidated Acts and regulations
  • Links to "Amendments Not in force" and "Related Provisions"
  • Shading of provisions in original enactments that are not yet in force

Frequently Accessed Acts

Frequently Accessed Regulations

Consolidation News

Unless otherwise indicated:

  • Acts current to 2024-11-26
  • Regulations current to 2024-11-26

What’s New

  • 2024-07-24

    Update to Constitutional Documents

    Updates of the two administrative consolidations of the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982 that reflect amendments made since January 1, 2021 are now available.

  • 2024-06-05

    List of repeals

    The Minister of Justice has published in the Canada Gazette the list of provisions that were repealed on December 31, 2023, by the operation of section 3 of the Statutes Repeal Act.

  • 2024-03-20

    Corrections report (2023)

    The Department of Justice has added the 2023 corrections to the report listing typographical and grammatical corrections made under paragraph 27(c) of the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act. 

  • 2024-02-28

    2024 Annual Report

    The Minister of Justice tabled the 2024 Annual Report prepared in accordance with the Statutes Repeal Act in the House of Commons on January 31st, 2024 and in the Senate on February 7th, 2024.
    2024 Annual Report (PDF [257 KB])

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