The Advanced Registry Search allows you to indicate which documents you wish to search within the Registry. Depending upon your document type choice, the criteria types provided will change. When searching both Registrations and Lobbying Activity Reports (the search default), only those criteria types which are found in both document types are provided. If Registrations only is selected, all criteria types pertaining to registrations are provided and finally, if Lobbying Activity Reports only are chosen, all criteria types pertaining to lobbying Lobbying Activity Reports are provided.
Document type choices include:
Registrations and Lobbying Activity Reports: Results will include both registrations and Lobbying Activity Reports. See below for a description of each document types.
Registrations (active and inactive): Results will include registrations only — in any status. See below for a description of registration types.
Registrations (active only): Results will include active registrations only. An active registration is a registration which has no end date. See below for a description of the registrations types.
Lobbying Activity Reports: Designated Filers (consultant lobbyists and senior officers for organizations) are required to disclose certain details regarding each lobbying activity with SPOHs. Information in a Lobbying Activity Report includes the date of the activity, the names of the SPOHs who participated in the lobbying activity and the subject matter details of the lobbying activity. Designated Filers are required to file all Lobbying Activity Reports by the 15th of the month following the month when the lobbying activities took place.
The registry contains the following document types:
Registrations: The Lobbyists Transparency Act applies to individuals who are paid to communicate with provincial public office holders on behalf of a client or their employer in respect of certain subjects. There are two types of registrations:
Consultant lobbyist Registration Return: A registration where an individual (consultant lobbyist) has been contracted by an organization or individual to communicate with provincial public office holders. The consultant lobbyist Registration Return includes information on the consultant lobbyist and any provincial public offices he/she has held, information on the client (including any government funding received) and other direct interests of the lobbying activity, particulars of the subject matter of the lobbying activity and the BC Ministries/Provincial Entities that are the target of the lobbying. The consultant lobbyist is required to file a Registration Return within 10 days after beginning to lobby on behalf go the client and to file monthly updates if there is new information to report.
Organization registration: A registration where an organization employs one or more individuals any part of whose duties is to communicate with provincial public office holders on behalf of the employer in respect of certain subject matter. The Lobbyists Transparency Act requires that the officer responsible for filing returns (the most senior paid officer of the organization) register the organization. The Senior Officer must file a return within 10 days of the date the organization first has an in-house lobbyist. The organization registration includes information on the organization (including any government funding received), its parent and any subsidiaries that has a direct interest in the outcome of the lobbying activity, a list of the employees and a list of individuals who lobby on behalf of the organization and any provincial public offices they formerly held, particulars of the subject matter of the lobbying activity and the BC Ministries/Provincial Entities that are the target of the lobbying.
Lobbying Activity Reports: Designated Filers (consultant lobbyists and senior officers for organizations) are required to disclose certain details regarding each lobbying activity with SPOHs. Information in a Lobbying Activity Report includes the date of the activity, the names of the SPOHs who participated in the lobbying activity and the subject matter details of the lobbying activity. Designated Filers are required to file all Lobbying Activity Reports by the 15th of the month following the month when the lobbying activities took place.
AND/OR Operator Usage
The AND/OR operators allow you to perform more complex searches by applying the operator between criteria entered within the search form.
Using both operator types (AND and OR) in a search query
When the OR operator is used, the system puts the criteria separated by the OR operators in a grouping (within brackets). Therefore, the order in which the operators are used has an effect on how the query is performed. See the examples below:
Example 1:
You select: Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) AND Subject Matter: Environment OR Subject Matter: Climate
System performs: Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) AND (Subject Matter: Environment OR Subject Matter: Climate)
Results would include documents that contain:
Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) AND Subject Matter: Climate
Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) AND Subject Matter: Environment
Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) AND Subject Matter: Climate and Environment
Example 2:
You select: Subject Matter: Climate OR Subject Matter: Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) OR Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Energy Board (NEB)
System performs: (Subject Matter: Climate OR Subject Matter: Environment) AND (Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) OR Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Energy Board (NEB))
Results would include documents that contain:
Subject Matter: Climate AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC).
Subject Matter: Climate AND MinistryMinistry/Provincial Entity/Provincial Entity: National Energy Board (NEB)
Subject Matter: Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC).
Subject Matter: Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Energy Board (NEB)
Subject Matter: Climate and Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC).
Subject Matter: Climate and Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Energy Board (NEB).
Subject Matter: Climate AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) and National Energy Board (NEB)
Subject Matter: Environment AND Ministry/Provincial Entity: National Research Council (NRC) and National Energy Board (NEB)
Date Range
For registrations: Limits results to those registrations which were active at any time on or between the dates entered.
For lobbying activities: Limits results to those Lobbying Activity Reports that took place on or between the dates entered.
Note: You can enter dates into either one or both fields. If no date is entered in the From (YYYY-MM-DD) field, it will search for all documents up to the date entered in the To (YYYY-MM-DD) field. If no date is entered in the To (YYYY-MM-DD) field, it will search for all documents on or after the date entered in the From (YYYY-MM-DD) field. Note that the requirement to submit Lobbying Activity Reports began on