4 Date of commencement
an Act for which no other date of commencement is provided in the
Act is the date of assent to the Act.
(2) If an Act contains a provision that the Act or any portion of it
is to come into force or to be repealed other than on the date of
assent to the Act, that provision comes into force on the date of
assent to the Act.
(3) In this section, "date of assent", with reference to an Act that
has been reserved for the signification of the Governor General's
pleasure, means the date of the signification by the Lieutenant
Governor that the Governor General in Council assented to the Act.
(4) A regulation that
(a) is exempted from the application of the Regulations Act or
to which that Act does not apply, and
(b) is not expressed to come into force on a particular day
comes into force on the day that the regulation is enacted.
RSA 1980 cI-7 s4