Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments

• Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments

• Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee on Regulations and other Statutory Instruments

Standing committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario are regularly established within ten days of the beginning of each Session of Parliament, and report to the Legislature on matters referred to them. They do not have the authority to initiate investigations or expand their mandate. This committee was first formed in 1977 from a merger of the Standing Committee on Private Bills, and the Standing Regulations Committee. On March 14, 1980 the name of the committee changed to the Standing Committee on Regulations and other Statutory Instruments. In 1986 the committee became known as the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills.

The Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments was responsible for reviewing private members bills and regulations issued by departments and agencies of the government of Ontario on behalf of the Legislature. The committee attempted to ensure that the regulations were within the scope and method of exercising delegated legislative powers, and examined the merits of proposed legislation submitted by private members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Standing Committees are established under the authority of Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Ontario. Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee Procedures: A Guide for Committee Chairmen. Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1985

Records of the Archives of Ontario, Series RG 49-235

Archivist(s):
Wayne Crockett