Sentences with phrase «versions of a federal statute»

Section 13 of the Official Languages Act states that both the French and English versions of a federal statute are equally authoritative.

For example, the digital versions of federal statutes available from Justice Canada are «official», and they exist in forms and with rights extended to all and sundry that permit reuse and republication without royalty or permission.

I often notice that statutory interpretation is much easier when I resort to the French version of a federal statute.

Not exact matches

One trick I often use is CanLII / IJCan, or even translated Supreme Court judgments on Lexum; I just do a word search in federal statutes or Quebec laws in CanLII (Because they are completely bi-lingual) and then click on the English version on the same statute or law, look for the same section or article and find the correct English version or French version of whatever legal term I am looking.

I just stumbled upon the fact that the decision to discontinue publication of the print version of the federal Table of Public Statutes was reversed.

I recall that the federal government's online statutes for a while have a version of a URL with «stable» in the name — presumably where it was intended that they should be available in the long term.

A conviction under the state's version of the federal RICO statute, known as the New York Enterprise Corruption Law, can result in a sentence of up to 25 years in state prison, not to mention significant fines and asset forfeiture to make restitution.

In fact, a conviction under the New York Enterprise Corruption Law — the state's version of the federal RICO statute, can result in a state prison sentence of up to 25 years, significant fines, asset forfeiture, restitution and more.

Carl Malamud: Just imagine if the government printing office was emanating a certified, digitally fine, unique ID - based, cluefully formatted version of all statutes and opinions and regulations from the federal government, and they open - sourced their codes so that any state could run that same repository themselves.

Second, they offer annotated state and federal statutes; annotated federal regulations; and historical versions of some state codes.

For me, I still miss the convenience of the «organization by subject» of the extinct print version of Carswell's Index to Federal and Ontario Statutes (Mary Maclean).

The release itself is far superior to the federal version, containing as it does a small capsule summary of what the repealed statute would have accomplished.