This edition provides a comprehensive guide to the Provincial
Offences Act, Regulations and related Rules, with key cases cited under the
relevant sections and cross-references to related statutes and regulations that
create and govern the most commonly charged provincial offences, including:
- Children's Law Reform Act
- Dangerous Goods Transportation Act
- Dog Owners’ Liability Act and Pit Bull Controls
Regulation
- Evidence Act and Regulations
- Family Law Act; Family Law Rules
- Family Responsibility and Support Arrears Enforcement Act
- Highway Traffic Act and Regulations
- Liquor License Act and Licenses to Sell Liquor
Regulation
- Mental Health Act
- Motorized Snow Vehicles Act and Regulations
- Municipal Act, 2001
- Off-Road Vehicles Act
- Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
- Provincial Parks Act
- Public Vehicles Act and Regulations
- Retail Business Holidays Act
- Safe Streets Act, 1999
- Ticket Speculation Act
- Trespass to Property Act
- Truck Transportation Act and Regulations.
The 2009 Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences Act
incorporates all the legislative developments that have occurred since the
publication of the previous edition, including:
- The amended search warrant provisions under s. 158.1 of the
Provincial Offences Act
- Amendments to O. Reg. 950 which applies to Proceedings
Commenced by Certificate of Offence; O. Reg 259/08 which changes the proscribed
form of the Certificate of Offence and Offence Notice
- The Animal Welfare Act which went into effect on March 1,
2009 which amends the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Act and creates a number of new offences.
More than 100 cases have been added to update the case law
throughout this edition, including jurisprudence on the new rules:
- Ensuring the availability of common law defences to persons
charged with public welfare offences: R. v. Kelleher
- Decision of the Justice of the Peace could not stand without
an explanation of the reasoning that the defence arguments and testimony of the
defendant did not create a reasonable doubt: R. v. Woldenga
- The test is whether the decision of the justice of the peace
was reasonable, not whether the appeal court would come to a different
conclusion: R. v. Kucharyshen.
This edition of the Annotated Ontario Provincial Offences
Act sets out the revised statute and regulations as amended to Votes and
Proceedings No. 159 (June 4, 2009) and to Ontario Gazette Volume 142:24 (June
13, 2009).
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