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Justice Laws Website, Department of Justice Canada

Maintains the text in force

Canada's consolidated federal statutes and regulations, served whole as plain HTML at a stable address built from the Act's chapter or the regulation's registration number. Each consolidation states the date it is current to and the last amendment applied.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

Cannot be cited for

The consolidations are official under the Legislation Revision and Consolidation Act, but the site itself warns that where a consolidation and the original statute differ, the original prevails. The date a page is current to is printed in a side panel our capture does not carry, so a stored reading here shows the text without the line that dates it. Immigration practice in Canada also sits largely in ministerial instructions and programme delivery guidance, which are not law and are not published here, and Quebec selects its own immigrants under an accord this site does not carry.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Updated as amendments come into force; each page prints the currency date.

Re-check triggers

an amendment to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations on visa exemptions · an amendment to the residence requirement in the Citizenship Act

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