BILL M206 – 2023
LAND TITLE AMENDMENT ACT, 2023

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1 Section 222 of the Land Title Act, S.B.C. 1996, c. 250, is repealed and the following substituted:

Discriminating covenants are void

222 (1) A covenant that, directly or indirectly, restricts the sale, ownership, occupation or use of land in a manner that is contrary to section 7 of the Human Rights Code is void and of no effect.

(2) The registrar must cancel and remove a covenant referred to in subsection (1).

(3) If the registrar has notice that a registered restrictive covenant is void under this section, the registrar must, on the registrar's own initiative, remove the covenant.

Commencement

2 This Act comes into force on the date of Royal Assent.

Explanatory Note

CLAUSE 1: [Land Title Act, section 222]

• provides that a covenant that, directly or indirectly, restricts the sale, ownership, occupation or use of land in a manner that is contrary to section 7 of the Human Rights Code is void and of no effect; and
• requires the registrar to take certain actions in respect of them.