Legislation

The following statutes are administered, in whole or in part, by the portfolio of Canadian Heritage.

• Department of Canadian Heritage Act 
• An Act to Incorporate the Jules et Paul-Emile Léger Foundation 
• Broadcasting Act 
• Canada Council for the Arts Act 
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act 
• Copyright Act (formulation of cultural policy)
• Cultural Property Export and Import Act
• Fitness and Amateur Sport Act
• Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act
• Holidays Act 
• Income Tax Act (Tax credits, National Arts, Service Organizations and cultural property)
• Investment Canada Act (Cultural Foreign Investment)
• Laurier House Act (for certain powers)
• Lieutenant-Governors Superannuation Act (in part)
• Library and Archives of Canada Act
• Museums Act
• National Anthem Act
• National Arts Centre Act
• National Battlefields at Quebec Act 
• National Film Act
• National Horse of Canada Act
• National Sports of Canada Act
• National Symbol of Canada Act
• Official Languages Act (Part VII)
• Parliamentary Employment and Staff Relations Act 
• Physical Activity and Sport Act (in respect of sport)
• Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act 
• Public Service Employment Act (Report to Parliament)
• Public Service Labour Relations Act
• Salaries Act (Lieutenant-Governors)
• Sir John A. Macdonald Day and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day Act 
• Status of the Artist Act (Part I)
• Telefilm Canada Act
• Trade-marks Act (Use of National Symbols)