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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
- Access to Information Act PDF: 788 kB
- Canada Elections Act PDF: 3834 kB
- Canada Emergency Response Benefit Act PDF: 146 kB
- Canada Labour Code PDF: 2200 kB
- Competition Act PDF: 1088 kB
- Contraventions Act PDF: 329 kB
- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act PDF: 695 kB
- Copyright Act PDF: 1246 kB
- COVID-19 Emergency Response Act PDF: 563 kB
- COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, No. 2 PDF: 287 kB
- Criminal Code PDF: 7516 kB
- Divorce Act PDF: 940 kB
- Financial Administration Act PDF: 1106 kB
- Immigration and Refugee Protection Act PDF: 1203 kB
- Income Tax Act PDF: 20614 kB
- Interpretation Act PDF: 306 kB
- Pension Act PDF: 612 kB
- Privacy Act PDF: 537 kB
- Youth Criminal Justice Act PDF: 1058 kB
Frequently Accessed Regulations
- Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations PDF 1571 kB
- Federal Child Support Guidelines PDF 1701 kB
- Food and Drug Regulations PDF 12995 kB
- Income Tax Regulations PDF 7737 kB
- Income Support Payment (Excluded Nominal Income) Regulations PDF 89 kB
- Income Support Payment Amount Regulations PDF 88 kB
- Migratory Birds Regulations, 2022 PDF 906 kB
Consolidation News
Unless otherwise indicated:
What’s New
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2023-03-08
List of repeals
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2023-03-06
Corrections report (2022)
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2023-02-07
2023 Annual Report
2023 Annual Report (PDF [725 KB]) -
2021-03-24
Update to Constitutional Documents
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