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B.C. Reg. 134/2019
O.C. 314/2019
Deposited June 17, 2019
effective January 1, 2020
This consolidation is current to November 11, 2025.
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Energy Resource Activities Act

Investigations Regulation

[Last amended October 2, 2025 by B.C. Reg. 156/2025]

Contents
1Definition
2Drilling and Production Regulation
2.1Pipeline Regulation
2.2Processing Facility Regulation
3Notice

Definition

1   In this regulation, "Act" means the Energy Resource Activities Act.

[en. B.C. Reg. 156/2025, Sch. 2.]

Drilling and Production Regulation

2   The following provisions of the Drilling and Production Regulation are prescribed for the purposes of section 61.1 (1) of the Act:

(a) section 41 (1), (1.1), (2), (3), (4), (4.01) and (4.02);

(b) section 41.1 (2), (4), (5), (5.2) to (7.1), (10) and (12) to (20);

(c) section 41.2 (2);

(d) section 44 (1) (b), (b.1), (c) and (d.1) and (2);

(e) section 52.02;

(f) section 52.021 (3), (4) and (5);

(g) section 52.03 (1), (5), (6) and (7);

(h) section 52.04 (2), (3) and (5) to (8.1), (9), (10), (11) and (13);

(i) section 52.05 (2) to (4.1), (4.4) and (5);

(j) section 52.06 (1), (2), (4) and (7);

(k) section 52.061 (2), (5) and (6);

(l) section 52.07;

(m) section 52.08 (3) to (6) and (9);

(n) sections 52.09, 52.10 and 52.12.

[en. B.C. Reg. 156/2025, Sch. 2.]

Pipeline Regulation

2.1   The following provisions of the Pipeline Regulation are prescribed for the purposes of section 61.1 (1) of the Act:

(a) section 7.1 (1);

(b) section 12 (2).

[en. B.C. Reg. 156/2025, Sch. 2.]

Processing Facility Regulation

2.2   The following provisions of the Processing Facility Regulation are prescribed for the purposes of section 61.1 (1) of the Act:

(a) section 21;

(b) section 26 (d).

[en. B.C. Reg. 156/2025, Sch. 2.]

Notice

3   (1) The regulator may send the following by mail or email:

(a) an acknowledgment under section 61.2 (a) of the Act;

(b) a report under section 61.3 (1) of the Act;

(c) a statement under section 61.4 (2) of the Act.

(2) The number prescribed for the purposes of section 99 (1) (j.2) of the Act is one.

(3) If the regulator receives more than one application in respect of the same alleged contravention, the regulator's obligation under the following sections may be met as indicated:

(a) under section 61.3 (1) of the Act, by publishing the reports on a publicly accessible website maintained by or on behalf of the regulator;

(b) under section 61.4 (2) of the Act, by publishing the statement on a publicly accessible website maintained by of on behalf of the regulator.

[am. B.C. Reg. 187/2023, Sch., ss. 7 and 14.]

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Energy Resource Activities Act, S.B.C. 2008, c. 36, s. 99.]