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McGill Style Guide (10th ed).

Bills

Follow the order of information, punctuation, and capitalization in the examples below. See section 2.4 of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.) for complete rules on citing Bills.

Bill Number, Title in Italics, Session, Parliament/Legislature, Jurisdiction, Year, Pinpoint (Other Information).

Examples

Bill C-51, Anti-terrorism Act, 2nd Sess, 41st Parl, 2015, cl 5(1) (assented to 18, June 2015), SC 2015, c. 20.

Bill 108, Education Statute Law Amendment Act, 1st Sess, 43rd Leg, Ontario, 2023 (first reading 17 May 2023).

Your professor may have different citing expectations than library staff. Always check at the beginning of term and before starting assignments that the citing rules you are using are appropriate for your class.