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Emergency Program Act

COVID-19 (Limitation Periods in Court Proceedings) Regulation

B.C. Reg. 199/2020

 Note: This regulation has been placed in the Regulations Point in Time collection. This regulation is repealed, effective August 4, 2020.

B.C. Reg. 199/2020
O.C. 453/2020
Deposited August 4, 2020

Emergency Program Act

COVID-19 (Limitation Periods in Court Proceedings) Regulation

Limitation periods in court proceedings

1   (1) Subject to subsection (2), every mandatory limitation period and any other mandatory time period that is established in an enactment or law of British Columbia within which a civil or family action, proceeding, claim or appeal must be commenced in any of the following courts is suspended:

(a) the Court of Appeal;

(b) the Supreme Court;

(c) the Provincial Court.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a mandatory limitation period and any other mandatory time period established under the following enactments:

(a) the Builders Lien Act;

(b) Division 5 [Builders Liens and Other Charges] of Part 5 [Property] of the Strata Property Act.

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Emergency Program Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 111, s. 10.1.]