The information obtained from all of these sources must be updated by looking in the Canada Legislative Index for those legislative sessions not fully covered in these sources. Carswell publishes Annual Legislation as part of the Canadian Abridgment . You can use Annual Legislation to track legislative amendments and new legislation in all Canadian jurisdictions. If there is a current consolidation of the statute available, this will speed up your task. However, you may not want to rely completely on a commercial publisher.
Mistakes do occur.
As with the other publications, you will need to update using the Canada Legislative Index or a current electronic source such as CSB on QL or the parliamentary website . Amending legislation will be listed in these sources either by year and chapter number, or by bill number. Locate a copy of the amending legislation, using the print or electronic sources described above. Finding legislative history To conduct effective research, and particularly to look for judicial consideration of a statutory provision, you need to know its prior year, chapter, and section numbers. This means that in the 1970 revision of the federal statutes, this section was cited as Chapter B-5, section 124.