| Title | Short name | |
|---|---|---|
| Aeronautics Act | AERO-F | The act consists of a lengthy interpretation section which defines many key terms. Part I deals with Aeronautics in general. Part III (there is no Part II) deals with staff responsibilities. This act affects working hours and some safety and compensation items, it does not affect environmental issues.|
| Canadian Aviation Regulations | AVIA-F | This regulation, like it enabling statute, defines many key terms related to the sector of aviation. It affects mainly aviation documents, flight crew permits and requirements, and other administrative matters. Generally speaking, this regulation affects the activities linked to aviation.|
| Canadian Aviation Security Regulations | AVIAS-F | This regulation aims the security on aircrafts and more specifically aviation security. Part I is an interpretation section which defines many key terms. Part II regulates aviation security. Part III regulates aerodromes security. Part IV deals with emergency plans in case of threat against an aircraft. Schedules specifies the airports who are subjected to the present regulation.|
| Regulations Concerning Information Required by Foreign States | AVIAI-F | This regulation sets the informations that an aircraft departing from Canada, or a Canadian aircraft departing from any place outside Canada, must provide about the passengers and the crew members. This regulation aims national security and security of the aircrafts.|
| Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act | AWPPA | This act is a ‘zero discharge’ act, which states, “no person or ship shall deposit or permit the deposit of waste of any type in the Arctic waters.” The AWPPA describes offences and punishments, and the powers that may be given to Pollution Prevention Officers so that they may enforce the act.|
| Canada Labour Code | CLC | The objective of the code is to facilitate production by controlling strikes & lockouts, occupational safety and health, and some employment standards. Generally speaking, the code only applies to industries the federal government has jurisdiction over instead of the provinces. These industries include: broadcasting, telecommunications, chartered banks, postal service, airports and air transportation, shipping and navigation, interprovincial or international transportation (ie. road, railway, ferry or pipeline). It also applies to businesses in the Territories, on First Nations reserves, and certain crown corporations. // See Wikipedia page for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Labour_Code|
| Aviation Occupational Safety and Health Regulations | AVIAHS | This regulation applies specificly to employees working on aircrafts. This is basically a labour code applicable to this specific area. It covers various topics such as the lightning of the aircraft, the levels of sound permissible, electrical safety, sanitation, management of hazardous substances, safety rules applicable to clothing, equipment, material, etc.|
| Canada Labour Standards Regulations | CLSR | This regulation creates various norms applicable to labour in Canada. It sets the minimum wages, hours of work, holidays, maternity leave and various other topics. It sets standards and requirements applicable to employment.|
| Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations | COHSR | This regulation ensures the quality and conformity of Canadian infrastructures. It applies to buildings and it specific parts. (doors, clearances, walls, ladders, etc.) The goal of this regulation is to creates secure environments of work. It covers various topics such as sanitation, hazardous substances, confined spaces, tools and machinery, design and constructions, etc.|
| Safety and Health Committees and Representatives Regulations | SAFERR | This regulation creates administrative rules applicable to safety and health committees and representatives.|
| Canada National Parks Act | NPA-F | The National Parks Act is a Canadian federal law that regulates protection of natural areas of national significance. (from Wikipedia).|
| National Historic Parks General Regulations | HNPA-F | This regulation aims the preservation of national historic parks. It creates various interdictions concerning camping, pollution of watercourses, vessels, the utilization of fire and explosives, etc.|
| Canada Shipping Act | CSA-F | This act regulates shipping and navigation in Canada. It affects various environmental issues such as spills, disposal at sea and other impacts related to shipping.|
| Pollutant Discharge Reporting Regulations | PDRR-F | This regulation creates an obligation to report any discharge of polluants into the environment. This obligation applies to any master of a ship.|
| Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and for Dangerous Chemicals | SOR/2007-86 | This regulation applies to Canadian ships and non-Canadian ships in waters under Canadian juridiction. It creates basic parameters applicable in case of discharge of prescribed pollutants and chemicals. It includes provisions on requirements for constructions and equipments, and emergency plans in case of oil or marine pollution. It creates an obligation to keep various shipboard documents. The schedule 1 contains the list of the pollutants.|
| Response Organizations and Oil Handling Facilities Regulations | SOR/95-405 | This regulation sets out the rules applicable to response organizations. It creates the standards and requirements prescribed to its geographical area. It defines the procedure implemented in case of oil spill. It also applies to oil handling facilities and their emergency plans. Specific rules regulates oil handling facilities located south of the sixtieth parallel of north latitude.|
| Canada Water Act | CWA-F | This act provides the framework for cooperation with provinces and territories in the conservation, development, and utilization of Canada's water resources. The act also addresses issues of water quality and contamination, in case of water quality emergency, the Minister may take unilateral action.|
| Canada Wildlife Act | WILD-F | This act allows for the creation, management and protection of wildlife areas for wildlife research activities, or for conservation or interpretation of wildlife that are critical to migratory birds and other species. The Wildlife Area Regulations prohibits all activities that could be harmful to species and to their habitat, unless a permit is issued indicating the permitted activity.|
| Canadian Environmental Assessment Act | CEAA | This act is designed to ensure that projects do not cause significant adverse environmental effects, that they promote sustainable development, facilitate communication and participation between affected parties, and ensure projects on federal lands are not detrimental to the environment.|
| Comprehensive Study List Regulations | CSLR-F | This regulation lists the projects that are subject to a comprehensive study. Projects are listed in the schedule. Among the list, there is national parks and protected areas, electrical generating stations and transmission lines, water projects, oil and gas projects, minerals and mineral processing, nuclear and related facilities, industrial faciities, defence, transportation and waste management.|
| Regulations Respecting the Coordination by Federal Authorities of Environmental Assessment Procedures and Requirements | COORD-F | This regulation regulates the agency that deals with environment assessment reports. It defines its various administrative powers and the scope of the assessment.|
| Exclusion List Regulations Canlii updated | ELR-F | The Exclusion List Regulations specifies projects involving physical works with insignificant environmental effects that are exempt from environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.|
| Inclusion List Regulations | ILR-F | These regulations prescribe the physical activities and classes of physical activities, not relating to physical works, that may require an environmental assessment before a federal authority initiates or funds them, or grants land or issues regulatory approvals that allow the activities to proceed.|
| Infrastructure Projects Environmental Assessment Adaptation Regulations Canlii updated | IEA-F | This regulation creates adaptations applicable to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. It applies specifically to infrastructures.|
| Law List Regulations | SOR/94-636 | The Law List Regulations itemize the statutory and regulatory approvals that require environmental assessments under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act if they enable a project, as defined in the CEAA, which is not otherwise excluded. Environmental assessments are carried out by the federal department or agency that issues the approval.|
| Canadian Environmental Protection Act | CEPA | This act makes pollution prevention the cornerstone of national efforts to reduce toxic substances in the environment. 2. sets out processes to assess the risks to the environment and human health posed by substances in commerce; 3. imposes timeframes for managing toxic substances; 4. provides a wide range of tools to manage toxic substances, other pollution and wastes; 5. ensures the most harmful substances are phased out or not released into the environment in any measurable quantity; 6. allows for more effective cooperation and partnership with other governments and Aboriginal peoples.|
| 2-Butoxyethanol Regulations | BUTO-F | This regulation affects indoor use products containing 2-butoxyethanol. Schedule 1 specifies the concentration limits and schedule 2 contains the information needed for a permit.|
| Environmental Emergency Regulations | EER | This regulation creates environmental emergency plans in case of disasters created by pollution. The substances are listed in the schedule 1. Any person who manage, control, or use a substance listed must submit a notice to the minister including the informations required into this regulation.|
| Federal Halocarbon Regulations | FHR | This federal regulation regulates the use of the substance called halocarbon. Halocarbons are mainly used for refrigeration, air-conditioning systems and in fire-extinguishing systems purposes. This regulation prohibits the release of halocarbons. It also sets standards of utilization and stocking of the substance.|
| Interprovincial Movement of Hazardous Waste Regulations | IMHWR | The federal is best equiped to deal with interprovincial matters. This regulation applied to transport of hazardous wastes superior of 5 liters or 5 kilos. No hazardous wastes transport is allowed, unless it is accompanied with a manifest provided by the Minister of the province of origin or destination.|
| Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations | ODSR-F | This regulation affects substances that are considered as controlled. The protocole includes the list of substances included by this regulation. It creates an interdiction to import or export any controlled substances from a State that is not a party of the Protocole adopted by the United Nations Environment program. The regulation fixes the consumption allowance rates. Part I deals with the controlled substances. Part II deals with the specific use of controlled substances. Part III deals with the issuance of permits and other administrative issues.|
| Prohibition of Certain Toxic Substances Regulations | PCRS-F | This regulation aims the protection of the environment. It prohibits the manufacture, the use, the sell or the import of a toxic substance included in the schedule 1. It includes various administrative aspects such as the deliverance of permits, certificates, reports, record keeping, etc.|
| PCB Waste Export Regulations | PCBWR | This regulation affects the manutention, transport, exportation and management of PCB waste. PCB waste exportation is prohibited to a country other than the United States, and for disposal purpose only. It also sets the conditions applicable to such activity.|
| Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations | STSPPR | This regulation applies to storage tank systems located in Canada territory. It gives various obligations to the owner of the operator or a storage tank system. It sets the requirements and standards applicable to installation of such systems. It also aims the general protection of the environment, considering particularly the question of leak detection and emergency plans in case of oil spilll.|
| Virtual Elimination List | VEL-F | This regulation sets a virtual elimination list. The substances aimed by this regulation are listed in the schedule. Presently, only the hexachlorobutadiene substance figures on this list.|
| PCB Regulations | PCBR | This regulation aims the use of PCB substances. PCB means any chlorobiphenyls described in the list of toxic substances of schedule 1. It creates an interdiction to release PCBs and products containing PCBs into the environment. It covers various topics such as storage issues, labelling, reporting and keeping record files, and prohibitions and permitted activities.|
| Sulphur in Gasoline Regulations | SULPH-F | This regulation applies to gazoline that contains a certain concentration of sulphur. It contains methods of sampling and analysing, obligations to report and keep records of such activities.|
| On-Road Vehicle and Engine Emission Regulations | ONROAD-F | Generally speaking, this regulation applies to on-road vehicles that produces emissions of toxic substances. The objective of such regulation is to prevent and reduce emissions of hydrocarbons, carbon monoxyde, oxydes of nitrogen, formaldehyde, and other toxic substances produced by on-road vehicles. It also establishes emission standards and test procedures applicable to on-road vehicles.|
| Benzene in Gasoline Regulations | BENZR-F | This regulation applies specifically to gasoline that contains Benzene. Primary suppliers are prohibited to supply gasoline that contains Benzene that exceeds 1,0% by volume. It sets methods for sampling and analysing and prohibitions and limits for Benzene emissions based on a yearly pool average. It creates an obligation to submit a report on gasoline supplies to the Minister.|
| Off-Road Compression-Ignition Engine Emission Regulations | OCEER-F | This regulation applies to off-road vehicles. The goal is to reduce emissions of hydrocarbons, oxydes of nitrogen, carbon monoxyde and other toxic substances by establishing limits for certain substances. It establishes emission standards and test procedures for prescribed engines. It also aims the harmonization of Canadian environmental laws with the goals established by the United States Environmental Protection agency.|
| Off-Road Small Spark-Ignition Engine Emission Regulations | OSEER-F | The purpose of this regulation is to reduce emissions of toxic substances and establish standards in conformity with the objectives of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. It sets engine standards, creates an obligation to report for the compagnies, importation requirements, exemptions and defect policies.|
| Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Concentration Limits for Automotive Refinishing Products Regulations | SOR/2009-197 | This regulation applies to volatile organic compounds (VOC) that creates atmospheric photochemical reactions. The products containing such substance are listed in the first colomn of the schedule. It is prohibited to manufacture or import an automotive refinishing products if it exceeds the limits set out in column 2 of the schedule. It regulates deliverance of permits, conditions of issuance and conditions of revocation.|
| Disposal at Sea Regulations | SOR/2001-275 | This regulation sets out the form of applications for permits and reports related to proposals for disposal of substances at sea.|
| Contaminated Fuel Regulations | SOR/91-486 | These regulations are intended to prohibit the import and export of fuel containing toxic substances that are dangerous goods within the meaning of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, 1992 and that are neither normal components of the fuel or additives designed to improve the characteristics of the performance of the fuel.|
| Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material Regulations | SOR/2005-149 | This regulation applies to the manutention, transport, import and export of harzardous wastes and recyclable materials. Hazardous wastes are listed in schedules. It aims the prevention of environmental disasters and the protection of the environment.|
| Export Control List Notification Regulations | SOR/2000-108 | |
| Fuels Information Regulations | C.R.C.c.407 | This regulation applies to fuel in liquid form that originate from crude oil, coal and bituminous sands. It creates an obligation to inform the Minister for any person that import or produce in Canada more than 400 cubic metres of fuel that is listed in schedule.|
| Gasoline and Gasoline Blend Dispensing Flow Rate Regulations | SOR/2000-43 | This regulation applies to gasoline and gasoline blends that contains benzene. It fixes methods applicable to determinate dispensing flow rate. The maximum flow rate is fixed to 38 L/min.|
| Gasoline Regulations Canlii updated | SOR/90-247 | This regulation sets the maximum concentration permitted for lead and phosphorous in gasoline. It creates an obligation to keep records for any person who is producing, importing or selling leaded gasoline. The information contained in section 11 of the present regulation should be submitted annually to the Minister.|
| Masked Name Regulations | SOR/94-26 | The masked name regulation applies to names listed in section 3 that conceals the explicit chemical or biological name of a substance without misrepresenting the generic identity of the substance.|
| New Substances Notification Regulations (Chemicals and Polymers) | SOR/2005-247 | This regulation sets the standards and requirements needed for the utilization of new substances. It described the information that each person must provide to the Minister before manufacturing and importing a new substance. The Ministrer has to determine if the substance is potentially toxic, or possess risks to be toxic. It also creates administrative obligations and describes the duties and powers of the Ministers of Health and Environment.|
| Persistence and Bioaccumulation Regulations | SOR/2000-107 | This regulation determines what is a persistant substance and set the bioaccumulation factor.|
| Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines | CSQG | These guidelines are are for the general protection, management and improvement of land and water uses. Specific guidelenes have been developed for Agricultural, Residential/parkland, Commercial, and Industrial. Guidelines are applied to identify and classify sites, to assess the general degree of contamination at a site and to determine the need for further action, and as a basis for remediation objectives.|
| Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act | CWCIA-F | |
| Canada Gazette – Declarations Regulations (Chemical Weapons Convention) | SOR/2010-56 | This regulation enforces an international treaty banning the use of Chemical Weapons. It incorporates the norms of the Convention into Canadian law. It sets the standards of information needed for chemicals and discrete organics, riot control agents and retention of documents.|
| Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act | TEST-FED | This act, among other things, gives Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) responsibility for water management (s.5) The federal Crown has ownership of the water and other natural resources in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.|
| Explosives Act | EXPL-F | The act addresses the manufacture, testing, sale, storage, transportation and importation of explosives and the use of fireworks.|
| Explosives Regulations | EXPLR-F | This regulation affects the utilization of explosive. Most particularly, the transport, the manutention, the factories, the packing, the storage and handling, the sale of explosives etc. Explosives are divided into 7 different classes. Each type of explosive is described in the present regulation. It also sets administrative rules and safety standards applicable to the use of explosives.|
| Firearms Act | FIRE-F | This act regulates the permits and licences related to purchasing, owning and using a firearm. Permit expiration dates are also addressed in this act.|
| Conditions of Transferring Firearms and Other Weapons Regulations | FIRET-F | This regulation establishes the requirements and the procedure related to the transfer of firearms from a transferor to a transferee. It applies to restricted firearms.|
| Firearms Licences Regulations | FIREL-F | This regulation affects licensing related to firearms. It sets the standards needed for application and possession of a licence. Part I deals with individual. Part II deals with businesses. It also gives discretionary powers for the issuance of permits to the chief firearms officer.|
| Firearms Registration Certificates Regulations | FIREC-F | This regulation affects firearms registration certificates. Each certificate must conform to the conditions of issuance. It also described the information needed for an application for registration certificates.|
| Storage | FIRES-F | This regulation sets security standards applicable to the utilization, the display, the transport, the shipping and the storage of restricted and non-restricted firearms and prohibited handgun in the course of business. Generally, an arm must be unloaded.|
| Fisheries Act | FISH-F | This act enables the federal government to protect marine and freshwater habitats supporting those species that sustain fisheries, namely fish, shellfish, crustaceans and marine mammals. It principally addresses the management and monitoring of fisheries, conservation and protection of fish and fish habitat and pollution prevention through permit requests and other mechanisms.|
| Metal Mining Effluent Regulations | MME-F | This act regulates the rejection of metal mining effluents into the environment. An effluent should not be mixed with water. Effluents are subjects to water quality and biological monitoring tests.|
| Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations | PPER | This regulation affects the rejection of effluents by pulp and paper industries. It covers various topics such as deposit, monitoring equipments and results, emergency plans, maximum quantity of suspended solids, etc. Part II deals exclusively with Port Alberni mill.|
| Northwest Territories Fishery Regulations | FISHNWT-F | This regulation applies to the commerce of fishery in and adjacent Northwest territories, and tidal waters of the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba. It sets the standards applicable to fishery, giving particular rights without permits to native people. It regulates also commercial, sport and domestic fishing. It also included restrictions about size limits.|
| Freshwater end of pipe intake | PIPE INTAKE | This guideline is designed to assist proponents in the design and installation of fish screens for the protection of anadromous and resident fish where freshwater is extracted from fish-bearing waters.|
| Hazardous Materials Information Review Act | HAZMATR-F | This act lays out the rules and guidelines for evaluating potentially hazardous materials and their handling. The management and enforcement is done by Hazardous Materials Information Commission.|
| Hazardous Materials Information Review Regulations | HAZMATRR-F | This regulation deals with claims for exemption of disclosure of informations concerning hazardous materials. It fixes the conditions and fees related to a claim.|
| Hazardous Materials Information Review Act Appeal Board Procedures Regulations | HAZMATRA-F | This regulations described the procedures of appeal concerning claims of exemption to disclosure. Form I lists the information needed for a statement of appeal. it is mainly a procedural regulation.|
| Hazardous Products Act | HPA-F | This act (along with the Controlled Products Regualtion) defines which materials (i.e., controlled products) are included in the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) and what information suppliers must provide to employers for controlled products used in the workplace.|
| Controlled Products Regulations | CP-F | When this product is considered a "controlled product" under the Controlled Products Regulations, a supplier must label the product or container, and they must provide a material safety data sheet (MSDS) to their customers.|
| Hazardous Products (Expansion Gates and Expandable Enclosures) Regulations | SOR/90-39 | This regulation mainly ensures the security of children against hazardous products. Any product sold must fits the standards of labelling and warnings sets by this regulation. Schedule sets a test for indelibility and durability of the printings and labels.|
| Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations | SOR/2001-269 | Every containers destined to consumption must fits the requirements prescribed by this regulation. It sets the requirements for labelling of toxic, corrosive, flammable and other toxics substances. The objective of this regulation is to create security norms for packaging and to inform consumers about risks related to the use of such substances.|
| Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. | HUDBAY | This act regulates the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., Limited and the Flin Flon mineral area in Manitoba. Mining operations may be affected by this act with regards to permitting, compensation and other items.|
| Installation Code for Oil Burning Equipment | B139-00 | This is a guideline for the installation of oil burning equipment. Though not legislation it is referenced by numerous pieces of legislation. See here for a more detailed summary: http://www.mmfi.com/wordings/B139-00%20HeatingFuelOil%20Storage.pdf|
| Installation Code for Oil-Burning Equipment | B139-04 | This is a guideline for the installation of oil burning equipment. Though not legislation it is referenced by numerous pieces of legislation. This item has been revised and the new version B139-09 is now available at the CSA.|
| Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act | KPIA | This law acknowledges that the Government of Canada must take serious action on climate change. The act requires the creation of a climate change plan and enactment of regulations that ensure that Canada meets its international obligations.|
| Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act | MVRMA | The Mackenzie Valley includes all of the Northwest Territories, with the exception of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and the Wood Buffalo National Park. The Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act is the federal legislation which governs the Mackenzie Valley. The act creates an integrated co-management structure for public and private lands and waters throughout the valley.|
| Migratory Birds Convention Act | S.C.1994c.22 | This law was established in 1917 and significantly updated in June 1994. It contains regulations to protect migratory birds, their eggs, and their nests from hunting, trafficking and commercialization. A permit is required to engage in any of these activities. (Wikipedia)|
| Migratory Birds Regulations | C.R.C.C.1035 | This regulation ensures the preservation of migratory birds. It prohibits hunting of migratory birds except under authority of a permit. It sets the requirements applicable to permit demands and sets the prohibitions related to the hunting of that type of bird.|
| National Fire Code | NFC | This code establishes fire safety for both occupants and emergency responders - inside and outside of new and existing buildings. The code eliminates or controls fire hazards caused by activities taking place on premises and by the operation of service equipment and codifies certain equipment installations and building standards. This code is not law, but is heavily referenced by legislation throughout the country - thus becoming de-facto law.|
| Navigable Waters Protection Act | NAV-F | From the Transportation Department: A public right of navigation exists in Canada. This right is not written anywhere; it is a Common Law right. This act ensures a balance between the public right of navigation and the need to build works, such as bridges, dams or docks for example, in navigable waters. More info here: http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/oep-nwpp-faqs-202.htm|
| Navigable Waters Works Regulations | NAVR-F | This regulation sets the period of time of a valid approval by the Minister. Every work irrigated into navigable waters must be approved by the Minister. It sets requirements for lightning, dams, equipments and debris, sound signals and fees applicable to such work.|
| Notice with respect to reporting of greenhouse gases (GHGs) for 2009 | GHG2009 | The notice details the requirement that facilities who exceed the new 50kt CO2 equivalent GHG emission threshold must report their 2009 GHG emissions on or before June 1, 2010.|
| NPRI Notice | NPRI2008 | Under the Notice with Respect to Substances in the National Pollutant Release Inventory, facilities that have releases over the defined threshold must report their emissions to the Environment Canada. The NPRI therefore serves as a database of annual reports from companies and organizations on their release of specific substances to air, water, and land.|
| Pest Control Products Act | PCPA-F | This act provides for stronger protection of human health and the environment. In 1998, as a matter of policy, Health Canada established safety factors that took into account pesticide exposure from all sources, including food and water. The act provides the authority for new regulations that require mandatory reporting of incidents of adverse effects, as well as regulations that require safety information be provided to workers. A registry for pesticides has been created and is available online.|
| Pest Control Products Regulations | PCPR | This regulation affects products related to pest control. It sets standards of utilization, labelling, packaging, storage and importation of such products. Due to its high level of toxicity and its negative impacts on environment, such products must be used carefully, according to the rules of this regulation.|
| Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat | PFISHM-F | This policy supports the habitat provisions of the Fisheries Act and helps counter the negative impacts that development activities can have on fish habitat and promote sustainable development. The Policy's goals include: conservation of existing habitats; Restoration of damaged habitat; and Development of new habitats.|
| Species at Risk Act | SPECIES-A | This act creates a list of protected species with varying degrees of protection - endangered, threatened and special concern. More information here: http://www.sis.ec.gc.ca/ec_species/ec_species_e.phtml|
| Territorial Lands Act | TERRLA-F | This act regulates land sale, purchase and management in the territories.|
| Northwest Territories and Nunavut Mining Regulations | NWTMIN-F | This regulations aims specificly Northwest and Nunavut territories mining activities. It is mainly an administrative regulation that creates various powers and duty to state officers.|
| Territorial Land Use Regulations | TERRLU-F | This regulation applies to Northwest territories as a land management zone. It regulates every use and activity performed into this zone.|
| The Criminal Code | CRIMINAL | This regulates criminal offences and procedures in Canada.|
| Bill C-45 - Amendments to the Criminal Code Affecting the Criminal Liability of Organizations | BILL C-45 | The amendments to the Bill C-45 is an attempt to modernize the law to reflect the increasing complexity of corporation structures. The new provisions includes a new description of the term "organization". The new definition includes "a firm, a partnership, a trade union or an association or persons created for a common purpose". The new amendment adds that a senior partner is someone who's managing an important part of the organization's activities. The amendments also increased fines related to less serious offences that are punishable by up to 6 months in jail or by fine. The anterior fine was fix up to 25 000$. With the new amendments, the fine is now up to 100 000$. For more serious offences, there is still no limits on fine. With the new amendments, factors are added to reflect the considerations that govern sentencing individuals. These factors are moral blameworthiness, public interest and prospect of rehabilitation.|
| Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act | TDG-F | This act regulates, amongst other things, the labelling, handling, transportation of dangerous goods, receiving and potential emergency situations.|
| Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations | TDGR-F | |
Here you will find the available environmental legislation; however, not all legislation, codes and standards are available in electronic format. We are continuously adding legislation, please contact us if you need assistance.