Register a BC Company in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan

Overview - Register a BC Company with a New West Partner (NWPTA)

Registering a BC Company in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan The following overview provides the information you need to register your BC company in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan. For business or legal advice, you should go to a small business consultant or a lawyer.
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Background

The New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA) provisions affecting registration of extraprovincial companies is now in effect. It enhances the previous agreement, the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement. This new agreement requires the Alberta Registry (Service Alberta) to facilitate the registration of an Alberta Company as an extraprovincial company in BC. As well, this agreement requires the Saskatchewan Corporate Registry to facilitate the registration of a Saskatchewan company as an extraprovincial company in BC.

If you are a BC Company and doing business in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan you will need to register there as an extraprovincial company.

This transaction allows an existing BC Company to submit information to register the company in Alberta and/or Saskatchewan as an extraprovincial company.

Alberta Extraprovincial Registration

You must ensure you have a valid NUANS search report before you can use this

transaction to register in Alberta.

If the BC Company is using its incorporation number as its name, there is no requirement to complete a NUANS search report in Alberta. Numbered company names are always in the prescribed

format of "1234567 B.C. LTD."