ARTICLE · 06 DECEMBER 2013

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law Comes Into Force July 1st, 2014

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The Government of Canada announced today that most of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation ("CASL") will come into force on July 1st, 2014.

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The Government of Canada announced today that most of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation ("CASL") will come into force on July 1st, 2014. After that date, organizations will either have to have the prior consent of intended recipients of "commercial electronic messages", or ensure that the messages being sent, or the recipients of those messages, are exempt from the requirements to get consent.

As part of the announcement, the Government also published the final version of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (link at: http://fightspam.gc.ca/eic/site/030.nsf/eng/h_00211.html ). Readers of this blog will recall Bob Pakrul's blog post in January of this year advising that those Regulations had been published for comment. Numerous comments were received and many were incorporated into the revised Regulations which were published today. Some of the most important revisions to the Regulations are as follows:

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