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Law not yet in force

By Shaunna Mireau

I happened to be looking at currency dates for a section of the Criminal Code today and saw a big bold New heading. To my glee the New heading prefaced a note about shading on the Department of Justice Laws website. The site has a new feature showing provisions that are not yet in force as shaded. Well done DOJ!

The frequently asked questions page describes it like so:

What does the shading of provisions mean?
A new feature has been added to the consolidated Laws on the Justice Laws Web site: provisions in original enactments that are not yet in force will be shaded. As those provisions are brought into force, the shading will be removed. This will make it possible to easily identify which provisions of original enactments are or are not yet in force.

Note that this feature is effective only as of November 25, 2009 and therefore does not apply to point-in-time searches before that date.

The page was last updated March 29, 2010, but this was news to me so I thought I would share.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).