1 Definitions

• 1 (1) In these regulations
• “access route” means those portions of the common property in a bare land strata plan intended to provide vehicular access to the strata lots in the bare land strata plan;
• “code” means

• (a) a bylaw adopted by a council under section 306 of the Vancouver Charter or under section 697 of the Local Government Act, or by the trustees of any improvement district,
• (b) regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under section 692 of the Local Government Act,
• (c) regulations made under the Drinking Water Protection Act or the Public Health Act, and
• (d) regulations made under the Safety Standards Act with respect to electrical equipment, gas systems and gas equipment;

• “development” means land that has been, or is intended to be, divided into 2 or more strata lots by the registration of a bare land strata plan in a land title office;
• “highway” includes a street, road, lane, bridge, viaduct and any other way open to the use of the public, but does not include a private right of way on private property;
• “improvement district” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act;
• “municipality” means a municipality as defined in the Local Government Act and includes the City of Vancouver;
• “potable water” means water which is approved for drinking purposes by a drinking water officer within the meaning of the Drinking Water Protection Act;
• “professional engineer” means a person who is registered under the Professional Governance Act as a professional engineer or professional licensee engineering;
• “regional district” means a regional district as defined in the Local Government Act;
• “registrar” means a registrar of titles within the meaning of the Land Title Act;
• “zoning bylaw” means a zoning bylaw within the meaning of the Local Government Act and includes a provision in any other bylaw of a municipality or regional district regulating the area, shape, dimensions or use of land but does not include an official community plan or an official settlement plan.
• (2) For the purposes of these regulations, a reference in a zoning bylaw to “lot” or “parcel” includes a strata lot in a bare land strata plan.

[am. B.C. Reg. 137/84; B.C. Reg. 41/2016; B.C. Reg. 237/2018, Sched. 1, s. 1; B.C. Reg. 11/2021, App. 3; B.C. Reg. 32/2023, Sch. B.]