Ministry of Justice

Legislation within the Mandate of the Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the statutes and regulations listed below. For a list of other ministries and their responsibilities, please see this page of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia website.

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Administrative Tribunals Act
Administrative Tribunals Appointment and Administration Act
Adult Guardianship Act

Age of Majority Act
Apology Act
Attorney General Act (The act, except ss. 2 (e), 5 and 6, as those provisions relate to the portfolio of the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.

Builders Lien Act

Charitable Purposes Preservation Act
Civil Rights Protection Act
Class Proceedings Act
Coastal Ferry Act (Part 4 and ss. 70, 72 and 73)

Commercial Arbitration Act
Conflict of Laws Rules for Trusts Act
Constitution Act (The act, except ss. 25-27)
Constitutional Amendment Approval Act
Constitutional Question Act
County Boundary Act
Court Agent Act
Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act
Court of Appeal Act
Court Order Enforcement Act
Court Order Interest Act
Court Rules Act

Criminal Code (Canada) (s. 672.38 (1) insofar as it applies to British Columbia)

Crown Counsel Act
Crown Franchise Act
Crown Proceeding Act

Debtor Assistance Act

Disciplinary Authority Protection Act

Election Act

Electoral Boundaries Commission Act

Electoral Districts Act
Electoral Reform Referendum 2009 Act

Enforcement of Canadian Judgments and Decrees Act
Environmental Management Act (Divisions 1 and 3 of Part 8)
Escheat Act

Estate Administration Act
Estates of Missing Persons Act
Evidence Act

Expropriation Act

Family Compensation Act
Family Law Act
Family Maintenance Enforcement Act

Family Relations Act

Federal Courts Jurisdiction Act
Financial Disclosure Act

Foreign Arbitral Awards Act
Foreign Money Claims Act

Forest and Range Practices Act (S. 166 as that provision relates to the portfolio of the attorney general

Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act (Part 9)

Fraudulent Conveyance Act
Fraudulent Preference Act
Frustrated Contract Act

Good Samaritan Act

Holocaust Memorial Day Act
Human Rights Code

Infants Act
Insurance Corporation Act (Part 2)

Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act

International Commercial Arbitration Act

International Sale of Goods Act
International Trusts Act
Interpretation Act

Judicial Compensation Act
Judicial Review Procedure Act
Jury Act

Justice Administration Act

Law and Equity Act

Law Reform Commission Act
Legal Profession Act
Legal Services Society Act
Libel and Slander Act
Limitation Act
Lobbyists Registration Act

Local Government (Ss. 916-919)

Local Government Bylaw Notice Enforcement Act

Members' Conflict of Interest Act

Ministry of Provincial Secretary and Government Services Act (The act, except ss. 1, 2 (4) and 4)
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act (No. 2), 2010 (S. 40)

Negligence Act
Notaries Act

Occupiers Liability Act
Offence Act

Oil and Gas Activities Act (Division 2 of Part 2)
Ombudsperson Act

Partition of Property Act
Patients Property Act

Perpetuity Act
Power of Appointment Act
Power of Attorney Act

Privacy Act
Probate Recognition Act

Property Law Act
Provincial Court Act

Public Guardian and Trustee Act

Public Inquiry Act

Queen's Counsel Act

Recall and Initiative Act

Referendum Act

Regulations Act

Representation Agreement Act

Representative for Children and Youth Act

Safe Streets Act
Settlement of International Investment Disputes Act
Sheriff Act

Small Claims Act

Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act (S 9.2)

Statute Revision Act

Subpoena (Interprovincial) Act

Supreme Court Act

Survivorship and Presumption of Death Act

Trespass Act

Trust and Settlement Variation Act
Trustee (Church Property) Act
Trustee Act

Utilities Commission Act

Wills Act (The act, except Part 2)

Wills Variation Act
Wills, Estates and Succession Act

Youth Justice Act (Part 1 and s. 44 (2) (a) and (b))

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the statutes and regulations listed above. For a list of other ministries and their responsibilities, please see this page of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia website.