About Ontario Legislative Databases on CanLII

This page contains specific details and notices about the consolidated statutes and regulations and the annual statutes from Ontario. For further information about legislation on CanLII, please read our general section about legislation.

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The consolidated statutes and regulations and the annual statutes from Ontario are updated weekly by CanLII, from the e-Laws website, maintained by the Government of Ontario.

Consolidated Statutes

The consolidated statutes database started on January 1, 2004 and contains point-in-time versions of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1990 (RSO 1990) as well as several chapters of the annual Statutes of Ontario (SO). These versions are "in force versions", that is, versions of the text as it was legally binding during a certain period of time.

CanLII cites these statutes as follows:

• by the chapter number of the RSO 1990, as for example: Accumulations Act, RSO 1990, c A.5; or
• by the annual chapter number of the SO, as for example: Waste Diversion Act, 2002, SO 2002, c 6.

Consolidated Regulations

The consolidated regulations database started on January 1, 2004 and contains point-in-time versions of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 (RRO 1990) as well as Ontario Regulations (O Reg) enabled by a consolidated statute. Theses versions are " in force versions", that is, versions of the text as it was legally binding during a certain period of time.

CanLII cites these regulations as follows:

• by the chapter number of the RRO 1990, as for example: Garage Licences, RRO 1990, Reg 595; or
• by the annual regulation number of the O Reg, as for example: Pit Bull Controls, O Reg 157/05.

Annual Statutes

The annual statutes database brings together the assented statutes once enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since April 12, 2000. They include new Acts as well as Acts that amend existing consolidated Acts.

CanLII refers to annual statutes by their Statutes of Ontario (SO) chapter number, as for example:

• Parental Responsibility Act, 2000, SO 2000, c 4;
• Open for Business Act, 2010, SO 2010, c 16;
• Ontario Day Act, 2021, SO 2021, c 7.