Updates to Referenced Documents

As with the National Model Codes, the content of the documents referenced in the Codes is regularly updated and published. In order to remain current, it has been the policy of the National Research Council Canada and the CCBFC to reference the latest editions of these documents through mid-Code-cycle updates.

In the past, updates to referenced documents were reviewed by the standing committees of the CCBFC only. For the first time, the public review process is being used to gather comments on updated referenced documents. Code users and stakeholders are asked to review proposed changes to the tables of referenced documents in the 2005 NBC, NFC and NPC. If the Issuing Agency, Document Number or Title of a document has changed, the entire existing entry is crossed out and highlighted in yellow, and the changed portion of the information is highlighted in blue in the entry directly below or in the appropriate location in the table.

However, what has been modified in the referenced document, or how it has been modified, is not identified in the tables and the referenced documents are not provided. It is up to Code users and stakeholders to research these changes and provide relevant comments. The goal of the public review on updates to referenced documents is to determine if there are objections to the proposed changes.

All comments submitted by November 23, 2007 will be reviewed by the relevant CCBFC standing committees. The standing committees will then either withdraw the change to the referenced document, recommend that it be reviewed further for future consideration as a proposed change, or recommend that it be approved by the CCBFC.

If approved by the CCBFC in February 2008, these changes will update the documents referenced in Table 1.3.1.2. of Division B and/or Table A-1.3.1.2.(1) of Appendix A of Division B, for each of the 2005 NBC, NFC and NPC, and Table D-1.1.2. of the 2005 NBC. The changes will then be published as revisions to the 2005 NBC, NFC and NPC, which are scheduled to be released in the spring of 2008.