How to issue a Public Inquiries Act summons — and autofill 004-0318 with my-id.ca
Prepare a commission summons without retyping witness details
Commissions of inquiry and parties who summon witnesses under the Public Inquiries Act repeat witness names, addresses, and hearing particulars on every prescribed summons form. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Public Inquiries Act forms regulation — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): Prescribed Form of Summons Under Subsection 33(4) of the Act — 004-0318
What this form is about
Form 004-0318 is the prescribed Form 1 summons under subsection 33(4) of the Public Inquiries Act, 2009 — confirm service requirements on ontario.ca.
Before you start: what to gather
- Witness full legal name and address.
- Commission or inquiry name and presiding body.
- Date, time, and place of required attendance.
- Documents or things to produce — prepare with commission counsel.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your witness identity and address details in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- How must a summons be served?
- Personal service is required — confirm fees and allowances on ontario.ca.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills witness name and address fields on repeated summonses.
- Who issues this form?
- A commission or presiding body under the Public Inquiries Act, 2009.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.