Revised Statutes of Ontario
{{Short description|Provincial laws of Ontario, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=February 2023}}
The Revised Statutes of Ontario (RSO; {{langx|fr-CA|Lois refondues de l'Ontario}}, {{lang|fr-CA|LRO}}) is the name of several consolidations of public acts in the Canadian province of Ontario, promulgated approximately decennially from 1877 to 1990.{{citation|title=About This Collection|website=Ontario: Revised Statutes collection (at Osgoode Digital Commons website)|url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/about.html|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701082550/https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/about.html|archive-date=2022-07-01|url-status=live|quote=This is a collection of Revised Statutes of Ontario, from the first revision of the statutes in 1877 to the last in 1990, as officially published by the Queen’s Printer and reproduced in PDF format. In these (generally) decennial revisions, all statutes in force at the time of the revision are collected, consolidated and printed in an “official” version to replace previous versions.}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20160315213257/https://library.mcmaster.ca/govpubs/guides/ontario_statutes.htm Government Publications Library Guides Ontario - Statutes]
Each revision contains a consolidated version of all non-obsolete statutes of general application, incorporating amendments enacted before the consolidation date. Revisions are defined and published according to acts of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The last edition of the RSO was dated 1990 pursuant to the Statutes Revision Act, 1989, consolidating the statutes in force prior to January 1, 1991.{{citation|title=Statutes Revision Act, 1989, SO 1989, c. 81.|website=Ontario: Annual Statutes collection (at Osgoode Digital Commons website)|url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1825&context=ontario_statutes|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629124350/https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1825&context=ontario_statutes|archive-date=2021-06-29|url-status=live}}
More recently, acts have been consolidated on the e-Laws website, organized by reference to their existing citations in the Statutes of Ontario or Revised Statutes of Ontario.{{citation|title=About e-Laws|url=https://www.ontario.ca/laws/about-e-laws|website=Ontario e-Laws website|date=2022-01-21|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227194621/https://www.ontario.ca/laws/about-e-laws|archive-date=2023-02-27|url-status=live|quote=Under current consolidated law, you can find the most recent versions of all consolidated public statutes and regulations.}}
Revisions
- 1877{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001625507 | title=The revised statutes of Ontario: Being a consolidation of the public general acts of the Legislature of Ontario, with such of the public general acts of the late province of Canada as relate to matters within the authority of the Legislature of Ontario | series=Laws, etc | date=1877 | publisher=Printed by J. Notman }}
- 1887{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010829892 | title=The revised statutes of Ontario, 1887 }}
- 1897{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010829893 | title=The revised statutes of Ontario, 1897 }}
- 1914{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010829921 | title=The revised statutes of Ontario, 1914 }}{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1914/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1914 }}
- 1927{{cite book | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010829922 | title=The revised statutes of Ontario, 1927 }}{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1927/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1927 }}
- 1937{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1937/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1937 }}
- 1950{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1950/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1950 }}
- 1960{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1960/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1960 }}
- 1970{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1970/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1970 }}
- 1980{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1980/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1980 }}
- 1990{{cite web | url=https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/rso/vol1990/ | title=Ontario: Revised Statutes | Vol 1990 }}