--- type: "firecrawl-provider" description: "Official consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada from the Department of Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca): full-text search, alphabetical browse, document structure and identifiers, point-in-time versions, page-by-page text, and the text of one section current or as of a date." use_when: "Official consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada from the Department of Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca): full-text search, alphabetical browse, document structure and identifiers, point-in-time versions, page-by-page text, and the text of one section current or as of a date." categories: "Public records" capabilities: 6 credits_per_call: 5 --- # Justice Laws Website (Canada) on Firecrawl Alexandria Official consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada from the Department of Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca): full-text search, alphabetical browse, document structure and identifiers, point-in-time versions, page-by-page text, and the text of one section current or as of a date. - Categories: Public records - Category index: [Public records category](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/categories/public-records) - Provider key: `laws-lois-justice-gc-ca` - Access: Firecrawl credits - Cost: 5 credits per call ## More - [Human guide](https://firecrawl.dev/app/alexandria/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca) - [OpenAPI spec](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/openapi.json) ## Capabilities - [Get legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_legislation): One consolidated federal act or regulation by code: title, citation, 'current to' and 'last amended' dates, enabling act (regulations), table of contents (parts, divisions, headings and schedules with their first section), regulations made under the act (current and repealed), and the stable full-text HTML, XML, PDF and previous-versions URLs. - [Get page](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_page): One page of the current consolidated text of a federal act or regulation, as the site paginates it (page-N.html, a run of consecutive sections): headings, the section numbers on the page, the page text with labels, marginal notes and amendment citations, and links to the previous and next pages. - [Get provision](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_provision): Text of one section of a federal act or regulation, current or as of a date: the section text with its subsection and paragraph labels, marginal notes, amendment history citations, the version's date range, links to the previous and next versions, and the stable section, document and XML URLs. - [List legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/list_legislation): Browse the alphabetical index of consolidated federal Acts or regulations for one letter: title, code, citation, index URL, PDF URL and whether regulations are made under the act. Optional case-insensitive title filter. - [List versions](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/list_versions): Point-in-time index of a federal act or regulation: every published consolidation range (from, to) with the full-document HTML URL of that version, newest first, and, for an as_of date, the version in force on that date. - [Search legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/search_legislation): Full-text search of the current consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada on the Justice Laws Website. Returns section-level hits (title, citation, provision label, section number, code, URL and the matched text), 5 per page as the site serves them, with the total hit count. ## 1. Choose this provider when Official consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada from the Department of Justice Laws Website (laws-lois.justice.gc.ca): full-text search, alphabetical browse, document structure and identifiers, point-in-time versions, page-by-page text, and the text of one section current or as of a date. ## 2. Minimal request Call `POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape` with `{ alexandria: { provider, capability, options } }`. For a batch, send `{ alexandria: [...] }` with up to 10 calls. ```json { "provider": "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", "capability": "legislation/get_legislation", "options": { "code": "A-1" } } ``` ## 3. Add provider options Use only the options needed for the task: - `code` (string, required): Justice Laws code of the act or regulation, as in its URL or citation: acts 'A-1', 'C-46', 'I-3.3'; regulations 'SOR/86-946' (or 'SOR-86-946'), 'SI/2024-61', 'C.R.C., c. 870'. SOR, SI and C.R.C. codes are regulations; anything else is an act. Example: `` ## 4. Request through your preferred interface ### JavaScript ```javascript const result = await firecrawl.scrape({ alexandria: { provider: "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", capability: "legislation/get_legislation", options: { code: "A-1", }, }, }); ``` ### Python ```python result = firecrawl.scrape_alexandria({ "provider": "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", "capability": "legislation/get_legislation", "options": { "code": "A-1" } }) ``` ### cURL ```sh curl https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/scrape \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "alexandria": { "provider": "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", "capability": "legislation/get_legislation", "options": { "code": "A-1" } } }' ``` ### CLI ```sh firecrawl scrape 'laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_legislation' \ --options '{"code":"A-1"}' ``` ### MCP Call the FCX MCP retrieve tool with this object: ```json { "provider": "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", "capability": "legislation/get_legislation", "options": { "code": "A-1" } } ``` Ask for only the returned fields needed by the task. ## 5. Full request shape ```json { "provider": "laws-lois-justice-gc-ca", "capability": "legislation/get_legislation", "options": { "code": "A-1" } } ``` ## 6. Response data The response includes `success`, `provider`, `capability`, `creditsCost` and `data`. This example shows the provider payload in `data`: ```json { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1", "code": "A-1", "current_to": "2026-09-30", "enabling_act": null, "full_text_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/FullText.html", "kind": "act", "last_amended": "2026-06-14", "observed_at_ms": 1792968775275, "pdf_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/A-1.pdf", "regulations": [ { "citation": "SOR/89-207", "code": "SOR-89-207", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-89-207/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/2024-61", "code": "SI-2024-61", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Act Heads of Government Institutions Designation Order", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-2024-61/index.html" }, { "citation": "SOR/83-507", "code": "SOR-83-507", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Regulations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-83-507/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/83-108", "code": "SI-83-108", "repealed": false, "title": "Designating the Minister of Justice and the President of the Treasury Board as Ministers for Purposes of Certain Sections of the Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-83-108/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/83-113", "code": "SI-83-113", "repealed": true, "title": "Access to Information Act Heads of Government Institutions Designation Order [Repealed]", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-83-113/index.html" } ], "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/index.html", "table_of_contents": [ { "depth": 0, "first_section": "1", "label": null, "title": "Short Title", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-176" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "2", "label": null, "title": "Purpose of Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-181" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "3", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-189" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "3.2", "label": null, "title": "Designation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-219" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "4", "label": "PART 1", "title": "Access to Government Records", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-227" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "4", "label": null, "title": "Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-1175822" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "4", "label": null, "title": "Right of Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-228" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "5", "label": null, "title": "Information about Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-243" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "6", "label": null, "title": "Requests for Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-259" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "12", "label": null, "title": "Access Given", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-324" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "13", "label": null, "title": "Exemptions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-338" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "13", "label": null, "title": "Responsibilities of Government", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-339" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "19", "label": null, "title": "Personal Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-504" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "20", "label": null, "title": "Third Party Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-515" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "21", "label": null, "title": "Operations of Government", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-550" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "24", "label": null, "title": "Statutory Prohibitions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-584" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "26", "label": null, "title": "Refusal of Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-596" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "27", "label": null, "title": "Third Party Intervention", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-601" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "30", "label": null, "title": "Complaints", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-642" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "32", "label": null, "title": "Investigations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-663" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "36.1", "label": null, "title": "Orders and Reports", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-1174493" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "38", "label": null, "title": "Reports to Parliament", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-725" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "41", "label": null, "title": "Review by the Federal Court", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-744" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "54", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-6.html#h-826" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "54", "label": null, "title": "Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-6.html#h-827" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "56", "label": null, "title": "Assistant Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-850" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "58", "label": null, "title": "Staff", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-871" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "59", "label": null, "title": "Delegation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-879" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "60", "label": null, "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-891" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "67", "label": null, "title": "Offences", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-934" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "68", "label": null, "title": "Exclusions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-955" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "70", "label": null, "title": "Designated Minister’s Duties and Functions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1003" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "71", "label": null, "title": "Regulations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1174494" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "71.01", "label": "PART 2", "title": "Proactive Publication of Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1171820" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "71.01", "label": null, "title": "Senate, House of Commons and Parliamentary Entities", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251103" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.01", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251104" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.02", "label": null, "title": "Senators", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251113" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.05", "label": null, "title": "Members of the House of Commons", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251151" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.08", "label": null, "title": "Parliamentary Entities", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1251189" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.12", "label": null, "title": "Parliamentary Privilege and Security of Persons, Infrastructure and Goods", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1251239" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "72", "label": null, "title": "Ministers", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1171835" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "81", "label": null, "title": "Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1171902" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "90.01", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, Courts Administration Service and Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251253" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.01", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251258" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.02", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251275" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.1", "label": null, "title": "Courts Administration Service", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-11.html#h-1251358" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.14", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-11.html#h-1251402" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.22", "label": null, "title": "Judicial Independence, Protected Information, Security of Persons, Infrastructure and Goods and Canadian Judicial Council", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1251487" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "91", "label": null, "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1172098" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "92", "label": "PART 3", "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1172106" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": null, "label": "SCHEDULE I", "title": "Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-13.html#h-1075" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": null, "label": "SCHEDULE II", "title": null, "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-14.html#h-1230" } ], "title": "Access to Information Act", "versions_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/PITIndex.html", "xml_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/XML/A-1.xml" } ``` ## API reference-derived contract The following capability contract is generated from the same normalized Alexandria API reference exposed in the API spec. ### Get legislation - Capability: `legislation/get_legislation` - Description: One consolidated federal act or regulation by code: title, citation, 'current to' and 'last amended' dates, enabling act (regulations), table of contents (parts, divisions, headings and schedules with their first section), regulations made under the act (current and repealed), and the stable full-text HTML, XML, PDF and previous-versions URLs. - Instructions: Get the structure and identifiers of a statute or regulation before reading sections, or find the regulations made under an act. Use list_versions for its point-in-time versions and get_provision for section text. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [Get legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_legislation) Accepted options: - `code` (string, required): Justice Laws code of the act or regulation, as in its URL or citation: acts 'A-1', 'C-46', 'I-3.3'; regulations 'SOR/86-946' (or 'SOR-86-946'), 'SI/2024-61', 'C.R.C., c. 870'. SOR, SI and C.R.C. codes are regulations; anything else is an act. Example: `` Response schema example: ```json { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1", "code": "A-1", "current_to": "2026-09-30", "enabling_act": null, "full_text_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/FullText.html", "kind": "act", "last_amended": "2026-06-14", "observed_at_ms": 1792968775275, "pdf_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/A-1.pdf", "regulations": [ { "citation": "SOR/89-207", "code": "SOR-89-207", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Act Extension Order, No. 1", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-89-207/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/2024-61", "code": "SI-2024-61", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Act Heads of Government Institutions Designation Order", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-2024-61/index.html" }, { "citation": "SOR/83-507", "code": "SOR-83-507", "repealed": false, "title": "Access to Information Regulations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-83-507/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/83-108", "code": "SI-83-108", "repealed": false, "title": "Designating the Minister of Justice and the President of the Treasury Board as Ministers for Purposes of Certain Sections of the Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-83-108/index.html" }, { "citation": "SI/83-113", "code": "SI-83-113", "repealed": true, "title": "Access to Information Act Heads of Government Institutions Designation Order [Repealed]", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-83-113/index.html" } ], "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/index.html", "table_of_contents": [ { "depth": 0, "first_section": "1", "label": null, "title": "Short Title", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-176" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "2", "label": null, "title": "Purpose of Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-181" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "3", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-189" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "3.2", "label": null, "title": "Designation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-219" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "4", "label": "PART 1", "title": "Access to Government Records", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-227" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "4", "label": null, "title": "Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-1175822" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "4", "label": null, "title": "Right of Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-228" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "5", "label": null, "title": "Information about Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-243" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "6", "label": null, "title": "Requests for Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html#h-259" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "12", "label": null, "title": "Access Given", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-324" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "13", "label": null, "title": "Exemptions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-338" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "13", "label": null, "title": "Responsibilities of Government", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html#h-339" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "19", "label": null, "title": "Personal Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-504" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "20", "label": null, "title": "Third Party Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-515" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "21", "label": null, "title": "Operations of Government", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-3.html#h-550" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "24", "label": null, "title": "Statutory Prohibitions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-584" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "26", "label": null, "title": "Refusal of Access", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-596" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "27", "label": null, "title": "Third Party Intervention", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-601" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "30", "label": null, "title": "Complaints", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-642" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "32", "label": null, "title": "Investigations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-4.html#h-663" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "36.1", "label": null, "title": "Orders and Reports", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-1174493" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "38", "label": null, "title": "Reports to Parliament", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-725" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "41", "label": null, "title": "Review by the Federal Court", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-5.html#h-744" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "54", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-6.html#h-826" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "54", "label": null, "title": "Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-6.html#h-827" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "56", "label": null, "title": "Assistant Information Commissioner", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-850" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "58", "label": null, "title": "Staff", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-871" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "59", "label": null, "title": "Delegation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-879" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "60", "label": null, "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-891" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "67", "label": null, "title": "Offences", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-934" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "68", "label": null, "title": "Exclusions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-7.html#h-955" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "70", "label": null, "title": "Designated Minister’s Duties and Functions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1003" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "71", "label": null, "title": "Regulations", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1174494" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "71.01", "label": "PART 2", "title": "Proactive Publication of Information", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1171820" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "71.01", "label": null, "title": "Senate, House of Commons and Parliamentary Entities", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251103" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.01", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251104" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.02", "label": null, "title": "Senators", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251113" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.05", "label": null, "title": "Members of the House of Commons", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-8.html#h-1251151" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.08", "label": null, "title": "Parliamentary Entities", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1251189" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "71.12", "label": null, "title": "Parliamentary Privilege and Security of Persons, Infrastructure and Goods", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1251239" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "72", "label": null, "title": "Ministers", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-9.html#h-1171835" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "81", "label": null, "title": "Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1171902" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "90.01", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, Courts Administration Service and Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251253" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.01", "label": null, "title": "Interpretation", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251258" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.02", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-10.html#h-1251275" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.1", "label": null, "title": "Courts Administration Service", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-11.html#h-1251358" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.14", "label": null, "title": "Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-11.html#h-1251402" }, { "depth": 2, "first_section": "90.22", "label": null, "title": "Judicial Independence, Protected Information, Security of Persons, Infrastructure and Goods and Canadian Judicial Council", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1251487" }, { "depth": 1, "first_section": "91", "label": null, "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1172098" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": "92", "label": "PART 3", "title": "General", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-12.html#h-1172106" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": null, "label": "SCHEDULE I", "title": "Government Institutions", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-13.html#h-1075" }, { "depth": 0, "first_section": null, "label": "SCHEDULE II", "title": null, "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-14.html#h-1230" } ], "title": "Access to Information Act", "versions_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/PITIndex.html", "xml_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/XML/A-1.xml" } ``` ### Get page - Capability: `legislation/get_page` - Description: One page of the current consolidated text of a federal act or regulation, as the site paginates it (page-N.html, a run of consecutive sections): headings, the section numbers on the page, the page text with labels, marginal notes and amendment citations, and links to the previous and next pages. - Instructions: Read a run of sections or a whole part in order (the table of contents in get_legislation gives each heading's page URL), or page through an act. For one section, or a past date, use get_provision. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [Get page](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_page) Accepted options: - `code` (string, required): Justice Laws code of the act or regulation, as in its URL or citation: acts 'A-1', 'C-46', 'I-3.3'; regulations 'SOR/86-946' (or 'SOR-86-946'), 'SI/2024-61', 'C.R.C., c. 870'. SOR, SI and C.R.C. codes are regulations; anything else is an act. Example: `` - `page` (number, required): Page number, as in page-N.html; page 1 starts with the long title. Example: `10` Response schema example: ```json { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1", "code": "A-1", "current_to": "2026-09-30", "document_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/index.html", "headings": [ "Access to Information Act", "Short Title", "Purpose of Act", "Interpretation", "Designation", "PART 1Access to Government Records", "Access", "Right of Access", "Information about Government Institutions", "Requests for Access" ], "kind": "act", "last_amended": "2026-06-14", "next_page_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-2.html", "observed_at_ms": 1792968775349, "page": 1, "previous_page_url": null, "sections": [ "1", "2", "3", "3.01", "3.1", "3.2", "4", "5", "6", "6.1", "7", "8" ], "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/page-1.html", "text": "Access to Information Act\nR.S.C., 1985, c. A-1\nAn Act to extend the present laws of Canada that provide access to information under the control of the Government of Canada and to provide for the proactive publication of certain information\nShort Title\nShort title\n1 This Act may be cited as the Access to Information Act.\nPurpose of Act\nPurpose of Act\n2 (1) The purpose of this Act is to enhance the accountability and transparency of federal institutions in order to promote an open and democratic society and to enable public debate on the conduct of those institutions.\nSpecific purposes of Parts 1 and 2\n(2) In furtherance of that purpose,\n(a) Part 1 extends the present laws of Canada to provide a right of access to information in records under the control of a government institution in accordance with the principles that government information should be available to the public, that necessary exceptions to the right of access should be limited and specific and that decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government; and\n(b) Part 2 sets out requirements for the proactive publication of information.\nComplementary procedures\n(3) This Act is also intended to complement and not replace existing procedures for access to government information and is not intended to limit in any way access to the type of government information that is normally available to the general public.\nInterpretation\nDefinitions\n3 In this Act,\nalternative format\nalternative format, with respect to a record, means a format that allows a person with a sensory disability to read or listen to that record; (support de substitution)\nbusiness day\nbusiness day means a day other than\n(a) a Saturday;\n(b) a Sunday or other holiday; and\n(c) a day that falls during the Christmas recess, as defined in section 2 of the Federal Courts Rules; (jour ouvrable)\nCourt\nCourt means the Federal Court; (Cour)\ndesignated Minister\ndesignated Minister means a person who is designated as the Minister under subsection 3.2(1); (ministre désigné)\nforeign state\nforeign state means any state other than Canada; (État étranger)\ngovernment institution\ngovernment institution means\n(a) any department or ministry of state of the Government of Canada, or any body or office, listed in Schedule I, and\n(b) any parent Crown corporation, and any wholly-owned subsidiary of such a corporation, within the meaning of section 83 of the Financial Administration Act; (institution fédérale)\nhead\nhead, in respect of a government institution, means\n(a) in the case of a department or ministry of state, the member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada who presides over the department or ministry, or\n(b) in any other case, either the person designated under subsection 3.2(2) to be the head of the institution for the purposes of this Act or, if no such person is designated, the chief executive officer of the institution, whatever their title; (responsable d’institution fédérale)\nInformation Commissioner\nInformation Commissioner means the Commissioner appointed under section 54; (Commissaire à l’information)\npersonal information\npersonal information has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Privacy Act; (renseignements personnels)\nrecord\nrecord means any documentary material, regardless of medium or form; (document)\nsensory disability\nsensory disability means a disability that relates to sight or hearing; (déficience sensorielle)\nthird party\nthird party, in respect of a request for access to a record under Part 1, means any person, group of persons or organization other than the person that made the request or a government institution. (tiers)\nFor greater certainty\n3.01 (1) For greater certainty, any provision of this Act that applies to a government institution that is a parent Crown corporation applies to any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries within the meaning of section 83 of the Financial Administration Act.\nFor greater certainty\n(2) For greater certainty, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board are parent Crown corporations for the purposes of this Act.\nFor greater certainty\n3.1 For greater certainty, for the purposes of this Act, information that relates to the general administration of a government institution includes information that relates to expenses paid by the institution for travel, including lodging, and hospitality.\nDesignation\nPower to designate Minister\n3.2 (1) The Governor in Council may designate a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada to be the Minister for the purposes of any provision of this Act.\nPower to designate head\n(2) The Governor in Council may, by order, designate a person to be the head of a government institution, other than a department or ministry of state, for the purposes of this Act.\nPART 1 Access to Government Records\nAccess\nRight of Access\nRight to access to records\n4 (1) Subject to this Part, but notwithstanding any other Act of Parliament, every person who is\n(a) a Canadian citizen, or\n(b) a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,\nhas a right to and shall, on request, be given access to any record under the control of a government institution.\nExtension of right by order\n(2) The Governor in Council may, by order, extend the right to be given access to records under subsection (1) to include persons not referred to in that subsection and may set such conditions as the Governor in Council deems appropriate.\nResponsibility of government institutions\n(2.1) The head of a government institution shall, without regard to the identity of a person making a request for access to a record under the control of the institution, make every reasonable effort to assist the person in connection with the request, respond to the request accurately and completely and, subject to the regulations, provide timely access to the record in the format requested.\nRecords produced from machine readable records\n(3) For the purposes of this Part, any record requested under this Part that does not exist but can, subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by regulation, be produced from a machine readable record under the control of a government institution using computer hardware and software and technical expertise normally used by the government institution shall be deemed to be a record under the control of the government institution.\nInformation about Government Institutions\nPublication on government institutions\n5 (1) The designated Minister shall cause to be published, on a periodic basis not less frequently than once each year, a publication containing\n(a) a description of the organization and responsibilities of each government institution, including details on the programs and functions of each division or branch of each government institution;\n(b) a description of all classes of records under the control of each government institution in sufficient detail to facilitate the exercise of the right of access under this Part;\n(c) a description of all manuals used by employees of each government institution in administering or carrying out any of the programs or activities of the government institution; and\n(d) the title and address of the appropriate officer for each government institution to whom requests for access to records under this Part should be sent.\nBulletin\n(2) The designated Minister shall cause to be published, at least twice each year, a bulletin to bring the material contained in the publication published under subsection (1) up to date and to provide to the public other useful information relating to the operation of this Act.\nDescriptions in publication and bulletins\n(3) Any description that is required to be included in the publication or bulletins published under subsection (1) or (2) may be formulated in such a manner that the description does not itself constitute information on the basis of which the head of a government institution would be authorized to refuse to disclose a part of a record requested under this Part.\nPublication and bulletin to be made available\n(4) The designated Minister shall cause the publication referred to in subsection (1) and the bulletin referred to in subsection (2) to be made available throughout Canada in conformity with the principle that every person is entitled to reasonable access thereto.\nRequests for Access\nRequest for access to record\n6 A request for access to a record under this Part shall be made in writing to the government institution that has control of the record and shall provide sufficient detail to enable an experienced employee of the institution to identify the record with a reasonable effort.\nReasons for declining to act on request\n6.1 (1) With the Information Commissioner’s written approval, the head of a government institution may, before giving a person access to a record or refusing to do so, decline to act on the person’s request if, in the opinion of the head of the institution, the request is vexatious, is made in bad faith or is otherwise an abuse of the right to make a request for access to records.\nLimitation\n(1.1) The head of a government institution is not authorized under subsection (1) to decline to act on a person’s request for a record for the sole reason that the information contained in it has been published under Part 2.\nTime limit suspended\n(1.2) If the head of a government institution communicates with the Information Commissioner to obtain his or her approval to decline to act, the 30-day period set out in section 7 — and any extension to it under section 9 — is suspended during the period beginning on the day on which the head of the institution communicates with the Information Commissioner and ending on the day on which he or she receives the Information Commissioner’s decision in writing.\nNotice — suspension\n(1.3) The head of the institution shall give written notice to the person who made the request for access to a record under this Part of the suspension of the period, and of the reasons for the suspension, at the same time as they communicate with the Information Commissioner to obtain his or her approval to decline to act.\nNotice — end of suspension\n(1.4) If the Information Commissioner refuses to give his or her approval, the head of the institution shall, on receiving the Information Commissioner’s decision in writing, give written notice to the person who made the request for access to a record under this Part of the refusal and of the date on which the running of the period resumes in accordance with subsection (1.2).\nNotice\n(2) If the head of a government institution declines to act on the person’s request, they shall give the person written notice of their decision to decline to act on the request and their reasons for doing so.\nNotice where access requested\n7 Where access to a record is requested under this Part, the head of the government institution to which the request is made shall, subject to sections 8 and 9, within 30 days after the request is received,\n(a) give written notice to the person who made the request as to whether or not access to the record or a part thereof will be given; and\n(b) if access is to be given, give the person who made the request access to the record or part thereof.\nTransfer of request\n8 (1) Where a government institution receives a request for access to a record under this Part and the head of the institution considers that another government institution has a greater interest in the record, the head of the institution may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by regulation, within fifteen days after the request is received, transfer the request and, if necessary, the record to the other government institution, in which case the head of the institution transferring the request shall give written notice of the transfer to the person who made the request.\nDeeming provision\n(2) For the purposes of section 7, where a request is transferred under subsection (1), the request shall be deemed to have been made to the government institution to which it was transferred on the day the government institution to which the request was originally made received it.\nMeaning of greater interest\n(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), a government institution has a greater interest in a record if\n(a) the record was originally produced in or for the institution; or\n(b) in the case of a record not originally produced in or for a government institution, the institution was the first government institution to receive the record or a copy thereof.", "title": "Access to Information Act" } ``` ### Get provision - Capability: `legislation/get_provision` - Description: Text of one section of a federal act or regulation, current or as of a date: the section text with its subsection and paragraph labels, marginal notes, amendment history citations, the version's date range, links to the previous and next versions, and the stable section, document and XML URLs. - Instructions: Quote or check what a federal provision says ('Criminal Code s. 718', 'Access to Information Act s. 4'), now or on a past date (as_of). Get the code and section from search_legislation, list_legislation or get_legislation. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [Get provision](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/get_provision) Accepted options: - `as_of` (string): Point-in-time date, YYYY-MM-DD: returns the version of the section in force that day by walking the site's previous-version pages. Omit for the current text. Pattern: ^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$. Example: `` - `code` (string, required): Justice Laws code of the act or regulation, as in its URL or citation: acts 'A-1', 'C-46', 'I-3.3'; regulations 'SOR/86-946' (or 'SOR-86-946'), 'SI/2024-61', 'C.R.C., c. 870'. SOR, SI and C.R.C. codes are regulations; anything else is an act. Example: `` - `section` (string, required): Section number as printed: '4', '2.1', '83.01'; 's. 4' and 'section 4' are accepted. Example: `
` Response schema example: ```json { "as_of": "2010-01-01", "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1", "code": "A-1", "current_to": "2026-09-30", "current_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/section-4.html", "document_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/index.html", "history": [ "R.S., 1985, c. A-1, s. 4", "1992, c. 1, s. 144(F)", "2001, c. 27, s. 202", "2006, c. 9, s. 143" ], "is_current": false, "kind": "act", "last_amended": "2026-06-14", "marginal_notes": [ "Right to access to records", "Extension of right by order", "Responsibility of government institutions", "Records produced from machine readable records" ], "next_version_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/section-4-20190621.html", "observed_at_ms": 1792968775302, "previous_version_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/section-4-20021231.html", "section": "4", "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/section-4-20070901.html", "text": "Right to access to records\n4 (1) Subject to this Act, but notwithstanding any other Act of Parliament, every person who is\n(a) a Canadian citizen, or\n(b) a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,\nhas a right to and shall, on request, be given access to any record under the control of a government institution.\nExtension of right by order\n(2) The Governor in Council may, by order, extend the right to be given access to records under subsection (1) to include persons not referred to in that subsection and may set such conditions as the Governor in Council deems appropriate.\nResponsibility of government institutions\n(2.1) The head of a government institution shall, without regard to the identity of a person making a request for access to a record under the control of the institution, make every reasonable effort to assist the person in connection with the request, respond to the request accurately and completely and, subject to the regulations, provide timely access to the record in the format requested.\nRecords produced from machine readable records\n(3) For the purposes of this Act, any record requested under this Act that does not exist but can, subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by regulation, be produced from a machine readable record under the control of a government institution using computer hardware and software and technical expertise normally used by the government institution shall be deemed to be a record under the control of the government institution.", "title": "Access to Information Act", "version_from": "2007-09-01", "version_to": "2019-06-20", "xml_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/XML/A-1.xml" } ``` ### List legislation - Capability: `legislation/list_legislation` - Description: Browse the alphabetical index of consolidated federal Acts or regulations for one letter: title, code, citation, index URL, PDF URL and whether regulations are made under the act. Optional case-insensitive title filter. - Instructions: Find the code of an act or regulation by its title ('Criminal Code' is under C, kind acts) when you know the name but not the code; pass title_contains to narrow the letter's list. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [List legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/list_legislation) Accepted options: - `kind` (string, required): kind Example: `acts` - `letter` (string, required): First letter of the title, A-Z. Pattern: ^[A-Za-z]$. Example: `` - `title_contains` (string): Case-insensitive substring filter on titles. Example: `` Response schema example: ```json { "count": 1, "items": [ { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. A-1", "code": "A-1", "has_regulations": true, "kind": "act", "pdf_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/A-1.pdf", "title": "Access to Information Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/index.html" } ], "kind": "act", "letter": "A", "observed_at_ms": 1792968775263, "source_url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A.html", "title_contains": "access to information", "total_on_page": 38 } ``` ### List versions - Capability: `legislation/list_versions` - Description: Point-in-time index of a federal act or regulation: every published consolidation range (from, to) with the full-document HTML URL of that version, newest first, and, for an as_of date, the version in force on that date. - Instructions: Find which consolidation of a whole act or regulation applied on a date, or list its amendment history by version. For one section's text on a date use get_provision with as_of. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [List versions](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/list_versions) Accepted options: - `as_of` (string): Point-in-time date, YYYY-MM-DD. Pattern: ^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$. Example: `` - `code` (string, required): Justice Laws code of the act or regulation, as in its URL or citation: acts 'A-1', 'C-46', 'I-3.3'; regulations 'SOR/86-946' (or 'SOR-86-946'), 'SI/2024-61', 'C.R.C., c. 870'. SOR, SI and C.R.C. codes are regulations; anything else is an act. Example: `` Response schema example: ```json { "as_of": "2020-07-01", "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. 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"https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/A-1/20021231/P1TT3xt3.html", "to": "2003-03-31" } ] } ``` ### Search legislation - Capability: `legislation/search_legislation` - Description: Full-text search of the current consolidated federal Acts and regulations of Canada on the Justice Laws Website. Returns section-level hits (title, citation, provision label, section number, code, URL and the matched text), 5 per page as the site serves them, with the total hit count. - Instructions: Find which federal act or regulation, and which section, deals with a topic ('privacy commissioner delegation', 'abatement of duties'). Narrow to one statute with 'title' (its exact title, e.g. 'Privacy Act'). Then read the section with get_provision using the returned code and section. - Cost: 5 credits per call - Capability file: [Search legislation](https://firecrawl.dev/alexandria/agents/providers/laws-lois-justice-gc-ca/legislation/search_legislation) Accepted options: - `page` (number): 1-based result page (5 hits per page); the continuation cursor is the next page number. Example: `1` - `query` (string, required): Keywords; the site's own search syntax applies (quotes for phrases). Example: `` - `scope` (string): Acts and regulations (default), acts only, or regulations only. Example: `all` - `title` (string): Restrict hits to documents whose title matches, e.g. 'Privacy Act'. Example: `` Response schema example: ```json { "observed_at_ms": 1792968775235, "page": 1, "query": "privacy commissioner", "results": [ { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21", "code": "P-21", "kind": "act", "provision": "Section 59", "section": "59", "snippet": "Delegation by Privacy Commissioner 59 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Privacy Commissioner may authorize any person to exercise or perform, subject to such restrictions or limitations as the Commissioner may specify, any of the powers, duties or functions of the Commissioner under this Act except (a) in any case other than a delegation to an Assistant Privacy Commissioner, the power to delegate under this section; and Delegations of investigations relating to international affairs and defence (2) The Privacy Commissioner may not, nor may an Assistant Privacy Commissioner, delegate [...] except to one of a maximum of four officers or employees of the Commissioner specifically designated by the Commissioner for the purpose of conducting those investigations. Delegation by Assistant Privacy Commissioner (3) An Assistant Privacy Commissioner may authorize any person to exercise or perform, subject to such restrictions or limitations as the Assistant Privacy Commissioner may specify, any of the powers, duties or functions of the Privacy Commissioner under this Act that the Assistant Privacy Commissioner is authorized by the Privacy Commissioner to exercise or perform. [...]", "title": "Privacy Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-21/section-59.html" }, { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21", "code": "P-21", "kind": "act", "provision": "Section 34", "section": "34", "snippet": "Powers of Privacy Commissioner in carrying out investigations 34 (1) The Privacy Commissioner has, in relation to the carrying out of the investigation of any complaint under this Act, power (a) to summon and enforce the appearance of persons before the Privacy Commissioner and compel them to give oral or written evidence on oath and to produce such documents and things as the Commissioner deems requisite to the full investigation and consideration of the complaint, in the same manner and to the same extent as a superior court of record; [...] (c) to receive and accept such evidence and other information, whether on oath or by affidavit or otherwise, as the Privacy Commissioner sees fit, whether or not the evidence or information is or would be admissible in a court of law; [...] (e) to converse in private with any person in any premises entered pursuant to paragraph (d) and otherwise carry out therein such inquiries within the authority of the Privacy Commissioner under this Act as the Commissioner sees fit; and Access to information (2) Despite any other Act of Parliament, any privilege under the law of evidence, solicitor-client privilege or the professional secrecy of advocates and notaries and litigation privilege, and subject to subsection (2.1), the Privacy Commissioner may, during the investigation of any complaint under this Act, examine any information recorded in any form under the control of a government institution, other than a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada to which subsection 70(1) applies, and no information that the Commissioner may examine under this subsection may be withheld from the Commissioner on any grounds. Protected information — solicitors, advocates and notaries (2.1) The Privacy Commissioner may examine information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege or the professional secrecy of advocates and notaries or to litigation privilege only if the head of a government institution refuses to disclose the information under section 27. For greater certainty (2.2) For greater certainty, the disclosure by the head of a government institution to the Privacy Commissioner of information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege or the professional secrecy of advocates and notaries or to litigation privilege does not constitute a waiver of those privileges or that professional secrecy. [...] Witness fees (4) Any person summoned to appear before the Privacy Commissioner pursuant to this section is entitled in the discretion of the Commissioner to receive the like fees and allowances for so doing as if summoned to attend before the Federal Court. Return of documents, etc. (5) Any document or thing produced pursuant to this section by any person or government institution shall be returned by the Privacy Commissioner within ten days after a request is made to the Commissioner by that person or government institution, but nothing in this subsection precludes the Commissioner from again requiring its production in accordance with this section. [...]", "title": "Privacy Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-21/section-34.html" }, { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21", "code": "P-21", "kind": "act", "provision": "Section 57", "section": "57", "snippet": "Duties generally 57 (1) An Assistant Privacy Commissioner shall engage exclusively in such duties or functions of the office of the Privacy Commissioner under this Act or any other Act of Parliament as are delegated by the Privacy Commissioner to that Assistant Privacy Commissioner and shall not hold any other office under Her Majesty for reward or engage in any other employment for reward. Salary and expenses (2) An Assistant Privacy Commissioner is entitled to be paid a salary to be fixed by the Governor in Council and such travel and living expenses incurred in the performance of duties under this Act or any other Act of Parliament as the Privacy Commissioner considers reasonable. Pension benefits (3) The provisions of the Public Service Superannuation Act, other than those relating to tenure of office, apply to an Assistant Privacy Commissioner. Other benefits (4) An Assistant Privacy Commissioner is deemed to be employed in the public service of Canada for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act and any regulations made under section 9 of the Aeronautics Act. [...]", "title": "Privacy Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-21/section-57.html" }, { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21", "code": "P-21", "kind": "act", "provision": "Section 36", "section": "36", "snippet": "Investigation of exempt banks 36 (1) The Privacy Commissioner may, from time to time at the discretion of the Commissioner, carry out investigations of the files contained in personal information banks designated as exempt banks under section 18. [...] Report of findings and recommendations (3) If, following an investigation under subsection (1), the Privacy Commissioner considers that any file contained in a personal information bank should not be contained therein within the terms of the order designating the bank as an exempt bank, the Commissioner shall provide the head of the government institution that has control of the bank with a report containing (a) the findings of the Commissioner and any recommendations that the Commissioner considers appropriate; and (b) where appropriate, a request that, within a time specified therein, notice be given to the Commissioner of any action taken or proposed to be taken to implement the recommendations or reasons why no such action has been or is proposed to be taken. Reports to be included in annual or special reports to Parliament (4) Any report made by the Privacy Commissioner under subsection (3), together with any notice given to the Commissioner in response thereto, may be included in a report made pursuant to section 38 or 39. Review of exempt banks by Court (5) Where the Privacy Commissioner requests a notice under paragraph (3)(b) in respect of any file contained in a personal information bank designated under section 18 as an exempt bank and no notice is received within the time specified therefor or the action described in the notice is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, inadequate or inappropriate or will not be taken in a reasonable time, the Privacy Commissioner may make an application to the Court under section 43. [...]", "title": "Privacy Act", "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-21/section-36.html" }, { "citation": "R.S.C., 1985, c. P-21", "code": "P-21", "kind": "act", "provision": "Section 35", "section": "35", "snippet": "Findings and recommendations of Privacy Commissioner 35 (1) If, on investigating a complaint under this Act in respect of personal information, the Privacy Commissioner finds that the complaint is well-founded, the Commissioner shall provide the head of the government institution that has control of the personal information with a report containing (a) the findings of the investigation and any recommendations that the Commissioner considers appropriate; and (b) where appropriate, a request that, within a time specified therein, notice be given to the Commissioner of any action taken or proposed to be taken to implement the recommendations contained in the report or reasons why no such action has been or is proposed to be taken. Report to complainant (2) The Privacy Commissioner shall, after investigating a complaint under this Act, report to the complainant the results of the investigation, but where a notice has been requested under paragraph (1)(b) no report shall be made under this subsection until the expiration of the time within which the notice is to be given to the Commissioner. Matter to be included in report to complainant (3) Where a notice has been requested under paragraph (1)(b) but no such notice is received by the Commissioner within the time specified therefor or the action described in the notice is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, inadequate or inappropriate or will not be taken in a reasonable time, the Commissioner shall so advise the complainant in his report under subsection (2) and may include in the report such comments on the matter as he thinks fit. Access to be given (4) Where, pursuant to a request under paragraph (1)(b), the head of a government institution gives notice to the Privacy Commissioner that access to personal information will be given to a complainant, the head of the institution shall give the complainant access to the information forthwith on giving the notice. Right of review (5) Where, following the investigation of a complaint relating to a refusal to give access to personal information under this Act, access is not given to the complainant, the Privacy Commissioner shall inform the complainant that the complainant has the right to apply to the Court for a review of the matter investigated. 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