Administrative Burden Baseline: Update 2024

The Administrative Burden Baseline provides Canadians with a clear metric on the total number of requirements in federal regulations and associated forms that impose administrative burden on business. This baseline contributes to the openness and transparency of the federal regulatory system.

All federal regulations that are administered by the Public Safety Portfolio that have requirements that impose administrative burden on business are identified below. Between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, the Department's total count of administrative burden requirements did not changeFootnote *. As a result, the baseline count remains unchanged from the 2023 baseline count of 239.

All federal regulations that are administered by Public Safety Canada that have requirements that impose administrative burden on business
Title of the regulation SOR Number 2024 Count
Conditions of Transferring Firearms and Other Weapons Regulations 98-202 29
Firearms Registration Certificates Regulations 98-201 10
Authorizations to Transport Restricted Firearms and Prohibited Firearms Regulations 98-206 4
Shooting Clubs and Shooting Ranges Regulations 98-212 77
Special Authority to Possess Regulations 98-208 20
Storage, Display and Transportation of Firearms and Other Weapons by Business Regulations 98-210 2
Firearms Licences Regulations 98-199 97
Total count 239

Previous years’ counts for Public Safety Canada are available upon request.

Footnote *

All federal regulations administered by the Canada Border Services Agency that have requirements that impose administrative burden on business are excluded from this count.

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