FEDERAL REGULATIONS MANUAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction

• Part 1: FEDERAL REGULATIONS AND THE REGULATIONS SECTION — AN OVERVIEW

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATIONS
  3. FORMALITIES OF THE REGULATORY PROCESS
  4. STAKEHOLDERS
  5. PROLIFERATION OF REGULATIONS
  6. THE REGULATIONS SECTION AND ITS MANDATE
  7. WORKING TOGETHER
  8. CONCLUSION
  
  
  

• Part 2: THE REGULATORY PROCESS

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. SCOPE OF THE STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS ACT
  3. FORWARDING OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINATION
  4. EXAMINATION
  5. TRANSMISSION AND REGISTRATION
  6. PUBLICATION
  7. COMING INTO FORCE
  8. PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY
  
  
  

• Part 3: HOW TO GIVE DRAFTING INSTRUCTIONS

  1. PLANNING THE REGULATIONS
  2. DETERMINING WHICH TYPE OF SUBMISSION IS APPROPRIATE
  3. OBTAINING SIGN-OFF
  4. GIVING INSTRUCTIONS FOR DRAFTING
  5. OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION TO ACCOMPANY INSTRUCTIONS OR DRAFTS
  6. EXAMPLE OF DRAFTING INSTRUCTIONS
  
  
  

• Part 4: DRAFTING AND FORMAT RULES

  INTRODUCTION

  • ABBREVIATIONS: INITIALISMS AND ACRONYMS
  • ADAPTATION OF A STATUTE
  • AGREEMENTS, CONVENTIONS, TREATIES AND SIMILAR DOCUMENTS
  • AMENDING REGULATIONS
  • AMENDING CLAUSES
  • “BUT”
  • CAPITAL AND LOWER CASE LETTERS
  • CITATION OF STATUTES
  • COMING-INTO-FORCE ORDERS
  • COMING-INTO-FORCE PROVISIONS
  • CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
  • CROSS-REFERENCES
  • DATES
  • DEFINITIONS
  • DIVISION OF REGULATIONS
  • “DUE TO”
  • ELLIPSES
  • EXPLANATORY NOTE
  • FEES AND TAXES
  • FINES AND IMPRISONMENT
  • FOOTNOTES
  • “GREATER OR LESSER OF X AND Y”
  • INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI)
  • ITALICS
  • LATIN EXPRESSIONS
  • MARGINAL NOTES
  • MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS
  • MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS
  • NOTICE OF PREPUBLICATION
  • NUMBERING
  • NUMBERS
  • ORDERS IN COUNCIL AND OTHER EXECUTIVE ORDERS
  • “PROVIDED THAT”
  • PROVINCES AND TERRITORIES: ORDER OF LISTING
  • PUNCTUATION
  • RECOMMENDATION OF THE MINISTER
  • RECOMMENDATION OF THE TREASURY BOARD
  • REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT (RIAS)
  • REMISSION ORDERS
  • SCHEDULES TO REGULATIONS
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • TERMINOLOGY
  • TIME LIMITS
  • TITLE OF REGULATIONS
  • VERB FORMS
  • “WITH ANY NECESSARY MODIFICATIONS”
  
  
  

• Part 5: DEVELOPING REGULATIONS: THE BASIC STEPS AND THE PLAIN LANGUAGE APPROACH

  1. PRELIMINARY STEPS
  2. PREPARE THE REGULATORY APPROACH
  3. DRAFT THE REGULATION
  4. PLAIN LANGUAGE DRAFTING
  5. TEST THE DRAFT REGULATION
  6. REVISE THE DRAFT REGULATION
  7. THE REGULATORY PROCESS
  8. EXAMINATION BY STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE FOR THE SCRUTINY OF REGULATIONS
  9. CONCLUSION