To Joyce and any other struggling individuals!
The Canada Gazette is truly a mess to work with.
Part I includes mainly government notices, appointments, proposed
regulations, orders in council, and other miscellaneous information. There
is no cummulation and you must keep all of it. We bind the individual
issues with the four quarterly indexes bound at the end of the year.
Part II is probably the most important part. It includes statutory orders
and statutory instruments (ie: federal regulations). Again you must keep
it all. The Consolidated Index of Statutory Instruments is cummulative and
is your most important tool. It lists the regulations currently in force
with their page numbers in the Gazette. We bind the final one for each
year since it is helpful to trace the history of regulations.
Part III is the Statutes of Canada which are printed after bills receive
Royal Assent. It can be discarded when you receive the bound Statutes of
Canada for the year. If you don't receive the bound Statutes, you should
keep them all. However, if you receive the looseleaf consolidation of the
Revised Statutes of Canada, you have a further problem. Acts are included
in the looseleaf consolidation only after they come into force. There are
some acts that where passed 10 years ago which are still not in force.
Therefore, how do you know which Acts from the Canada Gazette Part III are
contained in the looseleaf statutes (ie: those in force) and those which
are not and must be kept? I would not want to do the verification work!
Part III use to contain the Table of Public Statutes which lists each
Public Act with a list of amendments and "in force" information. It is an
extremely important tool and should be subscribed to separately.
Have you considered microfiche to solve the space problem?
Hope this helps!
Tracey Carmichael
-- British Columbia Courthouse Library Society 800 Smithe St., Vancouver, B.C., V6Z 2E1 BCCLS@mindlink.bc.ca
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