Consolidated Canadian Federal Acts and Regulations in XML Format

The Consolidated Acts and Regulations in XML list provides federal legislative instruments from Canada. It includes each instrument's consolidation date and links to its full text in XML and HTML formats. The dataset is provided by the Department of Justice Canada and was last updated on 2026-07-06.

Use Cases

• Analyze legislative changes over time based on consolidation dates mentioned in the description.
• Build a searchable database of Canadian federal law based on the linked XML and HTML text.
• Study the structure and metadata of legal instruments based on the provided consolidation information.

Strengths

• Provides direct links to full legislative text in both XML and HTML formats.
• Includes specific consolidation dates for each legislative instrument.
• Published under the OGL-CA-2.0 license, which permits reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is listed as a future date (2026-07-06).

Provenance

Source

Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-06 18:51:13.544782

Geography

Canada