Statutory Instruments Act

Marginal note:Judicial notice

• 16 (1) A statutory instrument that has been published in the Canada Gazette shall be judicially noticed.

• Marginal note:Evidence

  (2) In addition to any other manner of proving the existence or contents of a statutory instrument, evidence of the existence or contents of a statutory instrument may be given by the production of a copy of the Canada Gazette purporting to contain the text of the statutory instrument.

• Marginal note:Deemed publication in Canada Gazette

  (3) For the purposes of this section,

  • (a) if a regulation is included in a copy of the Consolidated Regulations of Canada, 1978 purporting to be printed by the Queen’s Printer, that regulation is deemed to have been published in the Canada Gazette; and

  • (b) if a regulation is included in a copy of a revision of regulations purporting to be published by the Queen’s Printer, that regulation is deemed to have been published in the Canada Gazette.