I’d like to invite Slaw readers to come check out Quickscribe’s [1] new BC Legislation Portal [2]. Launched yesterday [3], this site provides daily updates (every 4 hours actually) for changes in BC Law.
To relay a bit about what’s going on under the hood, this site is actually extending the value of Quickscribe’s RSS feeds [4]. I posted on the VLLB [5] a while back about the detailed nature of these feeds, but as I got to use them more, wondered if there might be some value to aggregating them as a collection. The BC Legislation Portal does just that. As amendments come down on Quickscribe’s online service [6], this site will:
- record that an Act or Regulation was updated;
- the date on which the amendment comes into force;
- whether each section was added, amended, substituted, or deleted; and
- offer a searchable collection of BC Legislative changes (a feature which should improve with age)
Rather than watch those great RSS updates come & go, they’ll now be republished, and can be used as a current awareness tool!