Franchises Act - British Columbia Law Institute https://www.bcli.org British Columbia Law Institute Thu, 06 Jan 2022 19:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.bcli.org/wp-content/uploads/BCLI-Logo_Favicon-36x36.png Franchises Act - British Columbia Law Institute https://www.bcli.org 32 32 New BC Franchises Act and regulations in force on 1 February 2017 https://www.bcli.org/new-bc-franchises-act-and-regulations-in-force-on-1-february-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-bc-franchises-act-and-regulations-in-force-on-1-february-2017 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 19:03:47 +0000 https://www.bcli.org/?p=12845 The Franchises Act and regulations will come into force on 1 February 2017, according to an announcement today by the Ministry of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction .  The Act was passed in 2015 following a BCLI report that recommended BC enact franchise legislation similar to that already in Read more

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]]> The Franchises Act and regulations will come into force on 1 February 2017, according to an announcement today by the Ministry of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction .  The Act was passed in 2015 following a BCLI report that recommended BC enact franchise legislation similar to that already in force in Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and PEI.  The Franchises Act provides important protections for BC-based franchisees and prospective buyers of franchises, and benefits franchisors as well by providing much-needed certainty about pre-contractual disclosure.  It reinforces best practices in franchising that are already standard in much of the rest of Canada.

 

 

 

 

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