﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Statute lims:pit-date="2002-12-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2002-12-31" lims:current-date="2019-06-21" lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363916" lims:id="363916" bill-origin="commons" bill-type="govt-public" xml:lang="en" in-force="yes" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363917" lims:id="363917"><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363918" lims:id="363918">An Act to recognize hockey and lacrosse as the national sports of Canada</LongTitle><ShortTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363919" lims:id="363919" status="official">National Sports of Canada Act</ShortTitle><RunningHead lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363920" lims:id="363920">National Sports of Canada</RunningHead><BillHistory lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363921" lims:id="363921"><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363922" lims:id="363922" stage="assented-to"><Date><YYYY>1994</YYYY><MM>5</MM><DD>12</DD></Date></Stages><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2019</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>22</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363924" lims:id="363924"><ConsolidatedNumber official="no">N-16.7</ConsolidatedNumber><AnnualStatuteId revised-statute="no"><AnnualStatuteNumber>16</AnnualStatuteNumber><YYYY>1994</YYYY></AnnualStatuteId></Chapter></Identification><Introduction lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363925" lims:id="363925"><Enacts lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363926" lims:id="363926"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363927" lims:id="363927" language-align="no" format-ref="indent-0-0" list-item="no"><Text>Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363928" lims:id="363928"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363929" lims:id="363929" level="1"><TitleText>Short Title</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363930" lims:id="363930"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363931" lims:id="363931">Short title</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>This Act may be cited as the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="N-16.7">National Sports of Canada Act</XRefExternal>.</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363932" lims:id="363932" level="1"><TitleText>National Sports of Canada</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:lastAmendedDate="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363933" lims:id="363933"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2002-12-31" lims:fid="363934" lims:id="363934">Hockey and lacrosse to be national sports</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>The game commonly known as ice hockey is hereby recognized and declared to be the national winter sport of Canada and the game commonly known as lacrosse is hereby recognized and declared to be the national summer sport of Canada.</Text></Section></Body></Statute>