The Other Side of Business Licensing: Professions, Trades and Businesses Licensed, Certified or Registered under B.C. Statutes

In relation to the authority for a municipality to licence businesses and to impose requirements for the licences, the Community Charter states as follows:

61 A provision in a bylaw under section 8 (6) [spheres of authority – business] that requires an examination or certification osf a person engaged in a trade or occupation does not apply to a person who has been granted a certificate or other evidence of competence for that trade or occupation under a Provincial or federal Act.

Our legal researcher, Lyle Rumpel, compiled a list of Provincial requirements for licences, certification and registration to enable local governments to check business licence applications for the required provincial credentials.

Please note the following:

• This list includes operators of specified businesses (e.g. fish processing) but does not include licensing rights to use land (e.g. under the Forest Act; approval of the source of mineral water for trading purposes under the Health Act; under the Range Act) or its resources (e.g. hunters under the Wildlife Act)
• Provincial statutes not only licence for the purpose of regulating professions, trades, and businesses but also certify or register for that purpose - therefore this list includes those types of statutory provisions as well
• The list does not include statutes if they regulate without also licensing, certifying, or registering

Click once on the letter of the alphabet below that matches the first letter of the statute you wish to check.

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We have included a pdf version that will print out in a handbook format, complete with a cover page, that can be hole punched and put in a binder.

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