Ontario · O. Reg. 665/98
HUNTING
Under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997
Current version date July 1, 2026 · official source text · watch this law (RSS)
Change history
Ontario hunting regulation updated: expanded family definitions, outdoors card rules, guide requirements, and language modernization
Ontario's hunting regulation has been amended in a wide-ranging update. The definition of 'immediate family member' now includes step-grandparents, step-parents, step-children, step-siblings, and step-grandchildren. T…
Effective date for two hunting tag rule changes pushed back to January 1, 2027
Two upcoming changes to how hunters must handle invalidated tags — covering possession of untagged animals and the rules for keeping a tag on a carcass until processing — have had their effective dates shifted from Ju…