Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. 40 (3rd Supp.))

Short Title

Marginal note:Short title

1 This Act may be cited as the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985 Act.

Confirmation, Commencement and Repeal

Marginal note:Confirmation of Statute Roll

• 2 (1) Subject to this Act, the Statute Roll deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments on November 27, 1987 and the statutes contained therein bearing chapter numbers A-1 to Y-4 are hereby declared to be law by the designation of the “Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985” as though the Statute Roll and those statutes were expressly embodied in and enacted by this Act.

• Marginal note:Commencement of Revised Statutes

  (2) Subject to this Act, the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, in this Act referred to as the “Revised Statutes”, come into force and have operation and effect as law on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Acts to be proclaimed

  (3) Where an Act included in the Revised Statutes contains a provision stating that the Act or any portion thereof is to come into force on a specified day or on a day to be fixed by proclamation,

  • (a) subsection (2) applies only in respect of the coming into force of that Act or portion if the specified day or the day fixed by proclamation occurred on or before the day referred to in that subsection; and

  • (b) if the specified day or the day fixed by proclamation occurs after the day referred to in subsection (2), the Act or portion comes into force on the specified day or the day fixed by proclamation.

Marginal note:Enactments repealed

3 Immediately before the coming into force of the Revised Statutes, the several Acts and portions of Acts listed in the schedule to the Statute Roll are repealed to the extent mentioned in the schedule.

Effects of Revision and Repeal

Marginal note:Operation of Revised Statutes

4 The Revised Statutes shall not be held to operate as new law, but shall be construed and have effect as a consolidation of the law as contained in the Acts and portions of Acts repealed by section 3 and for which the Revised Statutes are substituted.

Marginal note:References to repealed enactments and terminology

5 Where a reference is made in any Act, regulation or other instrument, document or text to any Act or portion thereof repealed by section 3, or to any expression used therein, the reference shall, after the Revised Statutes take effect, be deemed as regards any subsequent transaction, matter or thing to be a reference to the enactment in the Revised Statutes having the same effect as the repealed Act or portion thereof, or to the corresponding expression used therein.

Marginal note:Use of documents

6 Any forms, stationery and other documents, used under or in connection with an Act that is repealed by section 3 and for which an enactment in the Revised Statutes is substituted, may continue to be used during a reasonable period of time after the Revised Statutes take effect.

Marginal note:No deemed effect of inclusion in schedule

7 The inclusion of any Act in the schedule to the Statute Roll shall not be considered as a declaration that the Act or any portion of it was in force immediately before the coming into force of the Revised Statutes.

Publication, Citation and Appendices

Marginal note:Publication of Statutes Act not to apply

• 8 (1) The Publication of Statutes Act does not apply to the Revised Statutes.

• Marginal note:Printing and distribution of Revised Statutes

  (2) The Revised Statutes shall be printed and bound in such style and form as the Statute Revision Commission deems most suitable for the purpose and copies of the Revised Statutes shall be distributed without charge to such persons or classes of persons as the Governor in Council directs.

Marginal note:Citation of Revised Statutes

9 A chapter of the Revised Statutes may be cited and referred to in any Act, regulation, proceeding, instrument or document either by its short or long title as an Act or by using the expression “Revised Statutes, 1985, chapter ......”, or “chapter ...... of the Revised Statutes”, or the abbreviation “R.S.C., 1985, c. ......” or “R.S., c. ......”, adding in each case the number of the particular chapter.

Marginal note:Publication of this Act

10 A copy of this Act may be included in one of the volumes that contain the Revised Statutes in addition to being printed and published with the statutes enacted during the year in which this Act is assented to.

Marginal note:Appendices, schedules, index

• 11 (1) The Statute Revision Commission may cause to be printed, and included in the volumes that contain the Revised Statutes,

  • (a) appendices prepared by the Commission containing statutes of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of the Parliament of Canada and other documents relating to the Constitution of Canada or of any of its provinces or territories;

  • (b) schedules prepared by the Commission of similar character to those published with the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, with any alterations or additions that seem proper; and

  • (c) an index to the Revised Statutes.

• Marginal note:Constitutional statutes

  (2) The Statute Revision Commission may cause a public general statute of Canada that is of a constitutional or quasi-constitutional nature to be printed with the appendices referred to in subsection (1) and may thereupon omit any such statute from the volumes of the Revised Statutes.

• Marginal note:Consolidation

  (3) The statutes and documents referred to in paragraph (1)(a) and subsection (2) may for convenience be prepared in the form of consolidations.

Supplements

Marginal note:Supplements

12 The Statute Revision Commission may prepare, under and in accordance with the Statute Revision Act, supplements to the Revised Statutes showing, as amendments or additions to the Revised Statutes,

• (a) the public general statutes of Canada passed after December 31, 1984 but before the coming into force of the Revised Statutes;

• (b) any other public general statutes of Canada not included in the Statute Roll that the Commission may consider advisable to add thereto; and

• (c) any corrections required to be made to the Statute Roll by reason of any omission or error in its preparation, editing or printing.

Marginal note:Deposit with Clerk of the Parliaments

• 13 (1) When the Statute Revision Commission reports in writing the completion of a supplement to the Revised Statutes, the Governor General may cause a printed copy of the supplement, including a schedule similar in form to the schedule referred to in section 3, attested under the signature of the Governor General, countersigned by the Minister of Justice and certified correct by the Chairman of the Statute Revision Commission, to be deposited in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments and that copy shall be held to be the original of the enactments contained in the supplement.

• Marginal note:Coming into force

  (2) The Governor in Council, after deposit of a supplement in accordance with subsection (1), may by order declare the day on and from which the supplement shall come into force and have operation and effect as law as though the enactments contained therein were expressly embodied in and enacted by an Act of Parliament.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Where an Act included in a supplement contains a provision stating that the Act or any portion thereof is to come into force on a specified day or on a day to be fixed by proclamation or order of the Governor in Council,

  • (a) subsection (2) applies only in respect of the coming into force of that Act or portion if the specified day or the day so fixed occurred on or before the day declared by the Governor in Council pursuant to that subsection; and

  • (b) if the specified day or the day so fixed occurs after the day declared by the Governor in Council pursuant to subsection (2), the Act or portion comes into force on the specified day or the day so fixed.

• Marginal note:Repeal

  (4) Immediately before the coming into force of the supplement, the several Acts and portions of Acts listed in the schedule to the supplement are repealed to the extent mentioned in the schedule.

Marginal note:Deemed part of Revised Statutes

14 A supplement to the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be included in and to be part of the Revised Statutes, and the citation of any chapter of the Revised Statutes in accordance with section 9 shall be deemed to include any amendments thereto contained in a supplement.

Marginal note:Application of Act to supplements

15 The provisions of this Act applicable to or in respect of the Revised Statutes apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to and in respect of the supplements to those statutes.

General

Marginal note:Amendments apply to Revised Statutes

16 An amendment made by an enactment passed after December 31, 1984 to or in terms of an enactment that is repealed by this Act and replaced by the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to have been made to or in terms of the enactment in the Revised Statutes that is substituted for the repealed enactment.

Marginal note:Notes and tables

17 Any explanatory notes and tables inserted by the Statute Revision Commission in the Revised Statutes form no part of those statutes and shall be held to have been inserted for convenience only.

Marginal note:Text of orders

18 The insertion of the text of orders in council in the Revised Statutes shall be held to have been made for convenience only and not to affect the authority to revoke or replace those orders in council.