APPENDIX 4(17)
Canada Act 1982 (c 11)
An Act to give effect to a request by the Senate
and House of Commons of Canada.
[29th March 1982]
Whereas Canada has requested and consented to the
enactment of an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to
give effect to the provisions hereinafter set forth and the Senate
and the House of Commons of Canada in Parliament assembled have
submitted an address to Her Majesty requesting that Her Majesty
may graciously be pleased to cause a Bill to be laid before the
Parliament of the United Kingdom for that purpose:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Constitution Act, 1982 enacted
1. The Constitution Act, 1982 set out in
Schedule B [not printed] to this Act is hereby enacted
for and shall have the force of law in Canada and shall come into
force as provided in that Act.
Termination of power to legislate for
Canada
2. No Act of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom passed after the Constitution Act, 1982 comes into force
shall extend to Canada as part of its law.
French version
3. So far as it is not contained in Schedule
B, the French version of this Act is set out in Schedule A to
this Act and has the same authority in Canada as the English version
thereof.
Short title
4. This Act may be cited as the Canada Act
1982.
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