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  British Columbia Statutes and Related Information:

Statutes: QP LegalEze contains all provincial statutes, currently over 500. QP LegalEze updates Statutes continuously and is normally current within one to two weeks of a new Act or amendment. Amendments since the last official printed consolidation are highlighted in green text to make it easy to find what has been updated.

Point-in-Time Table: This table links users to an on-going list showing how sections of an Act read prior to amendments. Point-in-time data goes back to January 1, 2000.

Tables of Legislative Changes: This table identifies "Changes Not in Force" and "Changes in Force". The table includes the Section of the Act affected by changes, the nature of the changes, the enactment making the changes and for "Changes Not in Force", how the changes are to come into force.

Historical Table: This table provides similar information to the Tables of Legislative Changes for the Acts prior to the 1996 Revision.

Consolidated Provisions-in-Force: A complete, cross-referenced alphabetical listing of Acts passed during a particular Sitting of the Legislative Assembly. The listing, includes the following information: Act title, Bill number, citation, which provisions of the Bill affect the named Act, whether the legislation comes into force on Royal Assent or by regulation, and the effective dates.

Third Reading Bills: Third Reading Bills (Government and Private) are certified correct by the Law Clerk and updated in QP LegalEze on a daily basis while the House is in Session. QP LegalEze currently contains a complete listing of all Bills dating back to 1997: 2nd Session, 36th Parliament.

Rules of Court: Rules of Court and Related Enactments contains the Supreme Court Rules; Court of Appeal Rules; Patients Property Rules; British Columbia Court of Appeal Criminal Appeal Rules, 1986; B.C. Acts; and federal legislation including the Divorce Act (Canada), Criminal Rules, 1997 and Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings Regulations.

 

Regulations and Related Information:

Regulations: QP LegalEze contains the most comprehensive and current authoritative version of British Columbia Regulations from the B.C. Registrar of Regulations, complete with graphics, tables and forms. The official version of the BC Regulations is printed every four months. A Regulation may change one or more times during the four month period. QP LegalEze is normally current within two weeks of a deposited regulation.

Amendments Not in Force: QP LegalEze contains all the regulations with amendments not in force provided by the B.C. Registrar of Regulations. This allows users to search for and find regulations that have been deposited but have not come into force yet. (Coming Soon)

Full Text Orders-in-Council: QP LegalEze publishes a PDF version of all Orders-in-Council and Ministerial Orders the same week that they are passed by Cabinet passed and signed by the Lieutenant Governor, normally Friday afternoons. This allows users to view Orders even before they are deposited by the BC Registrar of Regulations.

Order-in-Council and Ministerial Resumes: These are reports of the decisions of the Lieutenant Governor in Council and Ministers and include the Order-in-Council or Ministerial Order number; the originating Ministry; the name of the Act which provides the authority for the Order; and a brief description of the subject matter. The full text Orders-in Council are linked to the resumes.

Regulation Bulletins: The Bulletins provide a summary of the regulations deposited with the Registrar of Regulations under the Regulations Act. The Cumulative Bulletin lists all regulations deposited to date, in alphabetical order by statute name. Regulation Bulletins are updated weekly or as received by the B.C. Registrar.

Gazette Part II: Complete text of all new, repealed and amended regulations deposited under the Regulations Act in a fully searchable format. Normally online before the printed version is available.

Hansard: The official, full report of the debates of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Updated continuously.

 

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