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Introducing: Regulations Research Refresher!

You asked, we listened! Following the success of the Great Library’s annual Legislative Research Refreshers (now accredited), the librarians developed another instructional session focusing on how to research regulations.

Online Legislative Research Refreshers (now, accredited!)

Join us for a 1-hour group tutorial where one of our law librarians will go through the fundamentals of legislative research including an overview of the legislative process (focusing on Ontario and Federal), effective time-saving tools, and a live demonstration of common legislative research tasks like:

tracing the amendment history of a statute
searching Hansard online
discovering legislative intent

We will also review the use of print and online sources such as e-Laws, Justice Laws, and HeinOnline.

This program contains 1 Professionalism Hour.

Zoom details will be sent prior to your scheduled Zoom session. We hope to ‘see’ you there!

Coming into force of Federal Regulations and Statutory Instruments

When conducting legislative research, many researchers will know that locating a piece of legislation is only half the battle. The next hurdle lies in decoding commencement information or coming into force date(s).

As outlined in previous posts, deciphering this information can be tricky and confusion often arises from the wording used. In this post we hope to shed light on three frequently used coming into force (CIF) phrases of Federal SORs and SIs.