Business Number Act -- BUSINESS NUMBER REGULATION

B.C. Reg. 388/2003
O.C. 1012/2003

Deposited October 24, 2003

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Business Number Act

BUSINESS NUMBER REGULATION

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 406/2004, September 10, 2004]

*Contents*
	1	Definition
	2	Adoption of system of business numbers
	3	Prescribed business information
	4	Designated enactments

Definition

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Business Number Act;

"program account number" means a number, consisting of the business number and an alphanumeric identifier, assigned to a business entity by a public body, that is used by the public body in administering a program under a designated enactment.

Adoption of system of business numbers

2 The numbering system used by the Minister of National Revenue for the purposes of the definition of "business number" in the Income Tax Act (Canada) is adopted as the system of business numbers for identifying business entities for the purposes of the Act.

Prescribed business information

3 The following information about a business entity is prescribed for the purposes of the definition of “business information”:

(a) its business number;

(b) its program account number;

(c) an identification number assigned to the entity by a public body in administering a designated enactment before a business number was assigned to the entity under this Act;

(d) its telephone number and facsimile number;

(e) its electronic mail address;

(f) the number of the registration certificate issued to the entity under the Social Service Tax Act;

(g) the number of the registration certificate issued to the entity under the Hotel Room Tax Act;

(h) the number of the dealer’s permit issued to the entity under the Tobacco Tax Act;

(i) the active or closed status of the business number, the reason for a change of status and the date on which the status changed;

(j) the active or closed status of a program account number, the reason for a change of status and the date on which the status changed;

(k) if the entity is a partnership, the names of at least two partners;

(l) if the entity, under the Business Corporations Act, Cooperative Association Act or Society Act, as applicable,

(i) has had published in the Gazette in respect of the entity a notice that the entity may be struck off the applicable register and dissolved or have its registration cancelled,

(ii) is dissolved or its registration is cancelled,

(iii) is restored,

(iv) is continued in British Columbia or under the laws of another jurisdiction,

(v) is an amalgamated company, association or society, or was part of an amalgamation,

(vi) has a receiver or receiver manager appointed,

(vii) has a liquidator appointed, or

(viii) has changed its name.

[am. B.C. Reg. 406/2004, s. (b).]

Designated enactments

4 The following are designated enactments for the purposes of the Act:

(a) the Business Corporations Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(b) the Cooperative Association Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(d) the Partnership Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(e) the Social Service Tax Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(f) the Society Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(g) the Tobacco Tax Act and the regulations made under that Act;

(h) the Workers Compensation Act and the regulations made under that Act.

[am. B.C. Reg. 406/2004, s. (b).]

[Provisions of the Business Number Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 50, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: sections 3 and 12]