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

  Real Estate Development Marketing Act

  2 provisions

  This part sets the rules for developers marketing development units, including approvals, disclosure statements, and deposit handling.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act

  2 provisions

  This Act defines key funeral-service terms and sets rules for operators, funeral providers, crematoriums, and places of interment.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Notaries Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets the rules for notaries public in British Columbia, including enrolment, conduct, trust accounting, discipline, corporate practice, and related funds and permits.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Hospital District Act

  2 provisions

  This part creates and governs regional hospital districts and their boards, including how they are formed, financed, budgeted, taxed, and managed.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Hazardous Waste Regulation

  2 provisions

  This part sets hazardous-waste handling rules, including bans on mixing, underground injection, and unauthorized disposal, plus special rules for e-waste, return collection facilities, temporary collection events, and certain waste types.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Farmers and Womens Institutes Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets out how farmers’ and women’s institutes can be incorporated, governed, funded, and converted, and gives the minister and other authorities specific powers.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Logging Tax Act

  2 provisions

  The Act requires logging taxpayers to pay tax, notify the commissioner when they start or stop logging, file returns, keep records, and comply with commissioner demands.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Trustee Act

  2 provisions

  This provision defines key trust-law terms and sets rules for trustees, including investment, delegation, insurance, trustee replacement, court-supervised administration, and some offences.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Assessment Act

  3 provisions

  This provision defines key terms and sets out assessment-roll, notice, inspection, disclosure, and valuation rules for property assessment.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Hazardous Waste Regulation

  5 provisions

  This regulation defines hazardous waste and sets operating, safety, recordkeeping, reporting, closure, and approval rules for hazardous waste facilities.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Land Surveyors Act

  1 provisions

  This Act governs land surveyors, the association that regulates them, and the rules for company permits, practice, titles, elections, discipline, and appeals.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Public Guardian and Trustee Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets out the powers, duties, and administration of the Public Guardian and Trustee, including child property guardianship, trust fund management, investigations, reporting, and fees.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  An Act to Incorporate the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District

  2 provisions

  This Act creates the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District and gives the Corporation and its Board powers to manage sewerage, drainage, and waste disposal, including borrowing, setting fees/levies, and making by-laws.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Motor Vehicle Act Regulations

  2 provisions

  This Division restricts when certain vehicles and equipment may be used on highways, and it sets permit, lighting, inspection, and insurance requirements.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Code of Practice for Agricultural Environmental Management

  2 provisions

  This code sets operating, storage, setback, emissions, and nutrient-application rules for agricultural operations.

  Code Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Utilities Commission Act

  3 provisions

  This part defines key utility terms and gives the commission broad control over public utilities, including service, records, orders, certificates, exemptions, and reporting.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Real Estate Services Act

  3 provisions

  This part requires most people who provide real estate services for remuneration to be licensed or exempt, and it tightly controls brokerages, managing brokers, trust accounts, and licence suspension.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Wildlife Act General Regulation

  1 provisions

  This regulation sets wildlife-related exemptions, transport rules, licence conditions, and offence provisions.

  Regulation Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act

  1 provisions

  This Act sets up the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing and gives the minister and related officials powers, duties, filing obligations, and regulation-making powers over Crown land, housing, and land title matters.

  Act or statute Open & Chat

• Canada — British Columbia

  International Trusts Act

  1 provisions

  This provision defines trusts and sets rules for which law applies, when trusts are recognized, and when states may make reservations or end participation.

  Act or statute Open & Chat