LAW Legal Citation (McGill Guide) Quick Reference

Legislation can include Statutes, Regulations, Bills, Constitutions, Treaties & International Agreements, and Indigenous Treaties. These types of materials can be found in different chapters throughout the Guide:

• Chapter 2 includes Canadian Statutes, Regulations, Bills, and Constitutional documents (e.g. Charter of Rights),
• Chapter 5 is for International Materials (e.g., treaties),
• Chapter 4 is for Government Documents (e.g., Indigenous Treaties), and
• Chapter 7 is for Foreign Sources (e.g., non-Canadian legislation).

Annual Statutes examples:

Family Law Act, SA 2003, c F-4.5.

Drug-Free Prisons Act, SC 2015, c 30.

Revised Statutes examples:

Territorial Lands Act, RSC 1985, c T-7, s 3.

Fair Trading Act, RSA 2000, c F-2.

Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11, s 91(24).

Canada

Bill C-5, An Act respecting the protection of wildlife species at risk in Canada, 2nd Sess, 37th Parl, 2002, cl 2(2) (as passed by the House of Commons 9 October 2002).

Provinces and Territories

Bill 20, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act, 2006, 2nd Sess, 26th Leg, 2006 (assented to 24 May 2006), SA 2006, c 17.

Polar Bear Pass Withdrawal Order, SOR/84-409.

Migratory Birds Regulations, CRC, c 1035, s 9 (CanLII).

Alberta Forest Land Use and Management Regulations, Alta Reg 197/1976, s 2.

Multilateral examples (Chapter 5.1.1):

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 9 May 1992, 1771 UNTS 107, art 1 [UNFCCC].

Paris Agreement, being an Annex to the Report of the Conference of the parties on its twenty-first session, held in parties from 30 November to 13 December 2015--Addendum Part two: Action taken by the Conference of the parties at its twenty-first session, 12 December 2015, UN Doc FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.1, 55 ILM 740 [Paris Agreement].

Bilateral example:

Treaty on Concord and Cooperation between Canada and the Russian Federation, 19 June 1992, Can TS 1993 No. 23.