Esheria Regulatory Atlas

Business registration in Canada — British Columbia

Registration, licensing, names, permits, and formal establishment requirements. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

232 matching statutes

• Canada — British Columbia

  Wills, Estates and Succession Act

  4 provisions

  This Act defines key estate terms and sets rules for spouses, survivorship, intestacy, and the spousal-home process.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Private Training Act

  2 provisions

  This Act requires many training institutions to be certified, limits when programs and credentials can be offered, and gives the registrar, inspector, and trustee enforcement and fund-related powers.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Motor Vehicle Act Regulations

  14 provisions

  This regulation part sets definitions and rules for vehicle number plates and lamps, including how plates must be displayed, transferred, removed, or temporarily used on substitute vehicles, and when lamps must be lit.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets rules for pharmacy licensing, pharmacy ownership and operation, drug sales and scheduling, inspections, notices, offences, and regulator powers.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Electronic Transactions Act

  1 provisions

  The Act lets electronic records, electronic signatures, and electronic methods satisfy many legal requirements, and it limits denial of legal effect just because something is electronic.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Cannabis Distribution Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets rules for BC cannabis distribution and retail, including who may sell cannabis, product registration, recordkeeping, confidentiality, reporting, offences, and penalties.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Community Care and Assisted Living Act

  2 provisions

  This Act sets rules for licensing and regulating community care facilities and assisted living residences in BC.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Credit Union Incorporation Act

  5 provisions

  This part defines key credit union terms and sets incorporation, naming, and pre-authorization rules.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Family Maintenance Enforcement Act

  2 provisions

  This Act sets up a Director of Maintenance Enforcement and gives that office powers to collect and enforce filed maintenance orders.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Destination BC Corp. Act

  1 provisions

  This Act continues Destination BC Corp. as a corporation, sets up its board and chief executive officer roles, and imposes financial, governance, and reporting rules.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Transportation Investment Act

  2 provisions

  This part lets the minister and concessionaire set up highway concession agreements, including tolling, maintenance, operation, audits, and dispute handling, while limiting certain closures, transfers, and tolls at highway intersections.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Adoption Act

  2 provisions

  This Act defines key adoption terms and sets rules for placement, consent, revocation, notice, and court adoption orders.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Skilled Trades BC Act

  2 provisions

  This part establishes Skilled Trades BC, its board, registry, apprenticeship and training powers, and rules for working in skilled trades certification trades.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Tobacco Tax Act

  3 provisions

  This provision defines key terms and sets tobacco tax, permit, reporting, collection, refund, inspection, and enforcement rules.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  British Columbia Railway Act

  2 provisions

  This part defines key terms and sets rules for the railway company, including how it may operate, how its shares and funds are handled, and limits on transferring railway property.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Insurance (Vehicle) Regulation

  5 provisions

  This regulation sets definitions, vehicle insurance coverage, certificate rules, premium adjustments, and related corporation powers and payment obligations.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Land Act

  2 provisions

  This provision defines key Land Act terms and sets out how Crown land is administered, recorded, applied for, disposed of, and sometimes restricted or cancelled.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Economic Stabilization (COVID-19) Act

  1 provisions

  This Act gives temporary deadline relief for certain tax payments, filings, and remittances, and sets special rules for some municipal tax penalties and remittances.

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• Canada — British Columbia

  Insurance Corporation Act

  2 provisions

  This provision continues the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, sets out its directors and officers, and gives it powers to run insurance-related business while imposing reporting, accounting, reserve, and filing duties.

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• Canada — British Columbia

  Clean Energy Act

  2 provisions

  This part sets British Columbia energy objectives, gives the authority duties and prohibitions around electricity supply, smart meters, heritage assets, and financing programs, and transfers the transmission corporation’s property, obligations, and employees to the authority.

  Act or statute Open & Chat