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Herb Lainchbury

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Aug 25, 2011, 10:23:42 PM8/25/11
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Does anyone happen to know why the Province publishes the information that they publish in Gazette?  

I mean, what law, if any, says that they have to publish:
- notice to creditors
- boundary amendments
- mining filing reports
- environmental protection notices
- list of land surveyors
- corporate registry notices

etc...

Thanks!

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James McKinney

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Aug 25, 2011, 11:49:11 PM8/25/11
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Tom Weir

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Aug 25, 2011, 11:50:01 PM8/25/11
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If I'm not mistaken, one or more of the parties in those notices is required by various regulations to post public notices. The Province is merely providing the (paid) service that satisfies those regulatory requirements.

Personally, I'd be thrilled if they were required to post it in a machine-readable format. E.g. RSS, etc

Clecio Varjao

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Aug 26, 2011, 11:13:32 AM8/26/11
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"Under the Regulations Act, all regulations must be published in the
British Columbia Gazette. Part II of the Gazette was created in 1958
to publish both general regulations and those which bring Acts into
force, (Part I Gazette contains all other orders and notices required
by law to be published)" (Nash, Berverley Gail, Legislation Made Easy
-- 3rd edition,
http://www.crownpub.bc.ca/pubdetail.aspx?nato=7610003430)

Herb Lainchbury

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Aug 27, 2011, 10:56:41 AM8/27/11
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Looking through these documents it seems that each declares the need to publish, but is there an overarching document that says "these sorts of things must be published".

Also, does anyone know if they Gazette has always been a revenue generator - or was it at one point a free publication?

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James McKinney

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Aug 27, 2011, 9:35:05 PM8/27/11
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There may be a document describing all laws requiring a notice to appear in the Gazette. However, the source of these requirements are in the individual laws. Here are some such lists:


You can perhaps get an internal document from the Queen's Printer with a more accurate list.  Or you might inquire as though for purchase, and they will surely tell you more about what you are considering buying.

I wouldn't say it's a revenue generator. It's just cost-recovery.

Crown Publications charged for documents at least since its site was first crawled by the Wayback Machine in 1998. http://web.archive.org/web/19981212024107/http://www.crownpub.bc.ca/ But they existed long before the Internet.
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