Vol. 143, No. 12 — June 10, 2009

Registration

SI/2009-42 June 10, 2009

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ACT

Order Fixing June 1, 2009 as the Date of the Coming into Force of Part 5 of the Act

P.C. 2009-828 May 28, 2009

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, pursuant to section 72 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, chapter 5 of the Statutes of Canada, 2000, hereby fixes June 1, 2009 as the day on which Part 5 of that Act comes into force.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The Order fixes June 1, 2009 as the day on which Part 5 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act comes into force. Parts 2, 3 and 4 came into force on May 1, 2000 and Part 1, on January 1, 2001.

Part 5 modernizes the Statute Revision Act. The Statute Revision Commission will be authorized to revise regulations that it previously only had power to consolidate. Also, the Minister of Justice will be authorized to publish consolidated statutes and consolidated regulations that will be admissible as evidence before a court (“official status”).

The consolidations currently available on the Justice Laws Web site do not have official status. The only official legislative instruments until Part 5 comes into force are the statutes and regulations published in the Canada Gazette and in the Annual Statutes of Canada volumes in the form in which they were enacted, as new or amending legislative instruments. The consolidations prepared by the Minister of Justice will be an addition to those official instruments.

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