A group within the Minister's office reviews the legislation at various stages. When a bill is ready for First Reading, the House Leaders of the various parties decide when it can be introduced. The House can then decide if the bill should proceed in the normal way to Second Reading, or be referred directly to Committee for study. Even after a bill has gone through First and Second Reading, Committee study and Third Reading in the Commons, either under the new rule or the old one, it must go through the same process in the Senate before it receives Royal Assent and becomes an Act of Parliament. Members of the public, who want to follow detailed proceedings of Parliament, can subscribe to the Canada Gazette .
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Part I of the Gazette is published every Saturday and contains all formal notices, official appointments, miscellaneous notices and proposed regulations. Part II of the Gazette , published every second Wednesday, carries regulations as defined in the Statutory Instruments Act , and certain other classes of statutory instruments. Part III of the Gazette is published as soon as is practicable after legislation has received Royal Assent. Included in each bill is the date at which the Act comes into force. All sections of an Act may not go into force at the same time.