The Council on Access to Information for Print-Disabled Canadians

Legislation and Regulations

• Canadian Legislation and Regulations
• Foreign Legislation and Regulations

Canadian Legislation and Regulations

• Access to Information Act
  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/A-1/index.html
  
  
• Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/index.html
  
  
• Canadian Human Rights Act
  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/H-6/index.html
  
  
  • Promoting Equality: a New Vision (2000)
    http://canada.justice.gc.ca/chra/en/
    
    
• Canada Post Corporation Act
  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-10/index.html
  
  
  • Materials for the Use of the Blind Regulations
    http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-10/C.R.C.-c.1283/42616.html
    
    
• Copyright Act
  http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/index.html
  
  
  • Copyright Reform Process
    http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/incrp-prda.nsf/
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Foreign Legislation and Regulations

United Kingdom

• Disability Discrimination Act 1995
  www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1995/1995050.htm
  
  
• Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
  www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2001/20010010.htm
  
  

United States of America

• 1998 Amendment to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
  www.section508.gov
  
  
• Act to Promote the Education of the Blind, US Code, Title 20, Chapter 6 (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School):
  www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/20/ch6.html
  
  
• Americans with Disabilities Act
  www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada
  
  
• Assistive Technology Act of 1998
  www.section508.gov/docs/AT1998.html
  
  
• Laws and regulations that refer to the provision of library service to people who are blind and physically disabled in the United States
  www.loc.gov/nls/laws.html
  
  
• U.S. Copyright Law
  
  
  • Copyright Law Amendment, 1996
    www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/copyright.html
    
    
  • Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
    www.copyright.gov/1201/