Federal Legislation – Research Step Four: Locate the statute or regulation
The next step is to locate the text of the statute or regulation so that you may review it in greater detail and fully assess whether it is applicable to your legal problem. There are various print and electronic resources available for locating the full text of the statute or regulation you are researching.
Federal legislation can be located utilizing any of the free or subscription-based online or print resources which follow:
- LEGISinfo (used to locate bills or legislation currently before Parliament): http://www.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/LEGISINFO
- Department of Justice – Canada Laws (used to locate statutes and regulations): http://laws.justice.gc.ca
- Consolidated Index of Statutory Instruments (used to locate statutes and regulations)
- Canadian Legal Information Institute – CanLII (used to locate unofficial statutes and regulations): http://www.canlii.org
- Westlaw (used to locate statutes, rules, regulations)
- Quicklaw (used to locate bills, statutes, rules, regulations)
- Especially, if looking for a statute at a given "point-in-time”:
