21 July, 2007

E-LAWS - official yet?

Excerpt from SLAW : One of our Legal Research and Writing professors came in to talk to me today because by her reading of s.35(1) Official Copy of the Legislation Act, it seems to say that e-Laws will still not be official until they are in the format proscribed by the regulations. (It then refers to s.41(1)). She wanted me to double check that this is a true reading of the Act. I contacted the Ministry of the Attorney General's Office and spoke to the Legislative Counsel who is very heavily involved with both the e-Laws website and the drafting of the Legislation Act. She confirmed that e-Laws will not be official until further regulations have been passed in accordance with s. 35(1) and 41(1). She did not have an ETA for when such regulations would be filed. She stated that the e-Laws website will look different on July 25, to reflect the new law, however the disclaimers will stay until regulations which bring the Legislation Act into effect have been filed.

I thought everyone should know.
Thanks!
Annette

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