QP LegalEze

QP Legaleze

This is the best source for British Columbia’s legislation and is designed for persons who work with regulatory and legal matters. It includes many value added features that are invaluable to the legal community, legal researchers, ministries, corporations, police and Crown counsel. QP LegalEze provides instant search results using the powerful and easy to use, award winning NextPage™ search engine.

QP LegalEze is produced by the Queen’s Printer in partnership with Legislative Counsel in the Ministry of Attorney General and the Legislative Assembly.

Various subscription options are available ranging from an annual subscription to monthly, 10-day or even day passes. Plus our Concurrent user licensing allows access to an entire organization at affordable rates. more information

Here’s what you get when you become a QP LegalEze Customer:

Statutes:

The Queen's Printer provides an early consolidation of the more than 650 BC Statutes. QP LegalEze content includes Private, Special and Local Statutes, with highlighted green text showing updated amendments made since the last official printed consolidation. These changes are easily searchable using the Search for Amendments option.

Point-in-Time Table:

This table links users to an on-going list showing how sections of an Act read prior to an amendment. It includes data from January 2000.

Tables of Legislative Change:

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; "Changes Not in Force", and also, how the changes are to come into force. The first edition table provides details on changes made from January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2004. The second edition table provides details on changes from January 1, 2005 to the present.

Historical Table:

This table provides similar information as the Tables of Legislative Change for the Acts from 1979 to the 1996 Revision.

Supplement (where applicable):

Shows all amendments enacted but not in force on December 31, 1996; the date of the last Statute Revision.

Archived Consolidations of Statutes:

All loose-leaf consolidations since the 1996 Revision are available in a searchable format within QP LegalEze.

Consolidated Provisions-in-Force:

A complete, cross-referenced, alphabetical listing of Acts passed during a particular sitting of the Legislative Assembly, 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 corresponding effective dates. This listing includes data from 1997 to present.

Table of Statutes - Repealed, Replaced and Renamed:

This table assists with tracking outdated legislation. It covers public statutes since 1897 that have been repealed and not replaced; repealed and replaced by a statute with a different title; or statutes that have been re-titled either by amendment of the Legislature or during revision.

Acts and Ministry Responsible:

Orders made under the Constitution Act designate Ministers responsible for the administration of most public statutes as well as a few private and local statutes. In a few cases, more than one Minister is designated. This section indexes the responsibilities designated both by the Act and by Minister responsible.

Bills:

The Bills Table provides links to the full-text of First Reading, Amended and Third Reading Bills (Government and Private). The table also links to where the Bills are dealt with during debates in the House. It includes Bills from the first Session, 36th Parliament of 1996 to the present.

Regulations:

QP LegalEze has the most current authoritative version from the BC Registrar of Regulations, which is complete with graphics, tables and forms. There are over 1200 regulations that can be accessed. The official version of the BC Regulations is printed every four months. QP LegalEze provides the unofficial early consolidation and is updated on a continuous basis as Regulations are consolidated.

Regulation Bulletins:

The Bulletins provide a weekly 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. As well there are hyperlinks to the full text Order-in-Council or Ministerial Order and BC Gazette Part II from the Bulletin listing. It includes data from 1999.

Archived Consolidations of Regulations:

All loose-leaf consolidations since April 2003 are available in a searchable format within QP LegalEze.

Defunct Regulations:

This listing links users to the full text of all regulations repealed from August 1, 2003 up to the present.

List of Updated Statutes and Regulations:

The list of updated Acts and Regulations since the date of the latest consolidation. Note that this relates to the latest loose-leaf print consolidation.

Full Text Orders-in-Council:

The Order-in-Council Administration Office provides Queen's Printer with the approved Orders-in-Council that have been passed by Cabinet. The Queen's Printer scans these documents, converts them to PDF and posts them on QP LegalEze daily. This allows users to easily see the full text of the Order-in-Council. The documents include Orders from November 2001 to present.

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. It includes data from January 1999 to present.

Rules of Court:

The BC Rules of Court and Related Enactments. Acts and Regulations that govern court procedures in British Columbia. It also includes Supreme Court Rules, Court of Appeals Rules and 19 related Acts (e.g., Patients Property Rules, British Columbia Court of Appeal Criminal Appeal Rules 1986, Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings Regulations)..

Hansard:

It is the official Report of the Debates of the Legislative Assembly. It includes debates from March 17, 2002 to present.

Gazette Part I:

Produced under the authority of the Queen's Printer Act, the BC Gazette Part I is published every week. It contains published legal notices such as Calling for Tenders, Forest Development Plans, Notice to Creditors, Land Dispositions, Public Tenders, Timber Licences Cancelled or Surrendered and Other Miscellaneous Notices. It includes issues from January 2003 to present.

Gazette Part II:

Under the Regulations Act, new Regulations must be published in the BC Gazette Part II. The electronic version of the BC Gazette has the complete text of all new, repealed and amended regulations deposited under the Regulations Act in a fully searchable format. This version is online before the printed version is available. It includes issues from October 2001 to present.

*Historical Supreme Court Rules:

The Historical Supreme Court Rules provide a full text of BC Regulation 310/76 and BC Regulation 221/90, as originally enacted. These were added because the two regulations were not reproduced in full in the BC Gazette Part II at the time they were enacted; subsequent amendments to them were gazetted.

*Corporate Registry Notices:

Effective March 29, 2004, the Corporate registry notices of company and extra-provincial company filings are no longer published in the BC Gazette Part I as per the new Business Corporations Act. QP LegalEze is the only online source to Corporate Registry notices. The registry includes data from January 2003 to present.

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