Regulations Listed by Department
This page lists Acts in alphabetical order beneath the name of the department or agency responsible for administering them - linked to a list of active regulations made under each Act. Only Acts that have regulations made under them are listed.
The Nova Scotia regulation number ("N.S. Reg.") of the base regulation and, if amended, the most recent amendment to the regulations is listed beneath the regulation title.
We post notice of new regulations and amendments (including new N.S. Reg. numbers) as soon as possible after filing, but the text of the new or newly consolidated regulations is not available until after the new regulations or amendments are published in the Royal Gazette Part II. Please contact us by e-mail with any questions about specific regulations.
Please note: we distribute Nova Scotia regulations only, not the Acts. Go to the Legislative Counsel website for the text of Acts (statutes) and bills.
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Office of Acadian Affairs and Francophonie
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Department of Agriculture
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Agricultural Marshland Conservation Act
- Agricultural Weed Control Act
- Agriculture and Marketing Act
- Agriculture and Rural Credit Act
- Animal Health and Protection Act
- Animal Protection Act
- Bee Industry Act
- Crop and Livestock Insurance Act
- Dairy Industry Act
- Farm Practices Act
- Farm Registration Act
- Forests Act (Christmas Tree Levy Regulations only)
- Fur Industry Act
- Health Protection Act (Milk Production, Transportation and Pasteurization Regulations only)
- Imitation Dairy Products Act
- Livestock Health Services Act
- Margarine Act
- Meat Inspection Act
- Natural Products Act
- Potato Industry Act
- Veterinary Medical Act
- Wildlife Act (Deer Farming and Marketing of Deer Products Regulations and Game Farming Regulations only)
Department of Advanced Education
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Agriculture and Marketing Act (Agreements of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College Regulations only)
- Degree Granting Act
- Language Schools Act
- Private Career Colleges Act
- Student Aid Act
- University Foundations Act
Chief Electoral Officer
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Communications Nova Scotia
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Communications and Information Act (also under Justice as relates to Royal Gazette)
Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Arts Council Act
- Combat Sports Authority Act
- Heritage Property Act
- Libraries Act
- Order of Nova Scotia Act
- Public Archives Act
- Sherbrooke Restoration Commission Act
- Special Places Protection Act (also under Environment and Climate Change)
- Volunteer Fire and Ground Search and Rescue Services Act
- Volunteer Protection Act
- Volunteer Services Act
Department of Community Services
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Adoption Information Act
- Adoption Records Act
- Children and Family Services Act
- Employment Support and Income Assistance Act
- Homes for Special Care Act (also under Seniors and Long Term Care)
- Intercountry Adoption Act
- North Queens Nursing Home Act
- Protection for Persons in Care Act (also under Seniors and Long Term Care)
- Social Assistance Act (also under Seniors and Long Term Care)
Department of Economic Development
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Community Economic Development Fund Act
- Co-operative Associations Act
- Industrial Loan Act
- Invest Nova Scotia Act
- Venture Corporations Act
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority Act
- Conseil scolaire acadien provincial Act
- Early Education and Child Care Act
- Education Act
- Education (CSAP) Act
- Mi'kmaq Education Act
- Public School Administrators Employment Relations Act
- Teachers' Professional Agreement and Classroom Improvements (2017) Act
Department of Environment and Climate Change
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Environment Act
- Health Protection Act (Food Safety Regulations only)
- Non-essential Pesticides Control Act
- Off-highway Vehicles Act (regulations respecting vulnerable areas and protected water areas only)
- Special Places Protection Act (regulations respecting designated ecological sites only)
- Wilderness Areas Protection Act
Office of Equity and Anti-Racism
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Department of Finance and Treasury Board
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Cannabis Control Act
- Corporation Capital Tax Act
- Credit Union Act
- Equity Tax Credit Act
- Gaming Control Act - Part I
- Income Tax Act
- Insurance Act
- Insurance Premiums Tax Act
- Members' Retiring Allowances Act
- Liquor Control Act
- Non-resident Deed Transfer and Property Taxes Act
- Pension Benefits Act
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
- Provincial Finance Act
- Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act
- Public Service Superannuation Act
- Revenue Act
- Sales Tax Act
- Sydney Steel Corporation Sale Act
- Teachers' Pension Act
- Trust and Loan Companies Act
Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Fish Harvester Organizations Support Act
- Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act
- Wildlife Act (Fishing Regulations only)
Department of Health and Wellness
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists Act
- Chiropractic Act
- Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act
- Counselling Therapists Act
- Dental Act
- Dental Hygienists Act
- Dental Technicians Act
- Denturist Act
- Dietitians Act
- Dispensing Opticians Act
- Fair Drug Pricing Act
- Gaming Control Act - Part I (also under Finance and Treasury Board)
- Health Authorities Act
- Health Protection Act (also under Agriculture)
- Health Services and Insurance Act
- Hospitals Act
- Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act
- Licensed Practical Nurses Act
- Mandatory Testing and Disclosure Act
- Massage Therapist Titles Protection Act
- Medical Act
- Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals Act
- Medical Laboratory Technology Act
- Medical Professional Corporations Act
- Midwifery Act
- Municipal Hospitals Loan Act
- Nursing Act
- Occupational Therapists Act
- Optometry Act
- Patient Access to Care Act
- Patient Safety Act
- Personal Health Information Act
- Pharmacy Act
- Physiotherapy Act
- Prescription Monitoring Act
- Psychologists Act
- Registered Nurses' Act
- Regulated Health Professions Act
- Regulated Health Professions Network Act
- Respiratory Therapists Act
- Safe Body Art Act
- Safer Needles in Healthcare Workplaces Act
- Smoke-free Places Act
- Snow Sport Helmet Act
- Tanning Beds Act
- Tobacco Access Act
House of Assembly Management Commission
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Department of Justice
(see also the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and Private Acts) To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Accessibility Act
- Adult Capacity and Decision-making Act
- Alternative Penalty Act
- Architects Act
- Assets Management and Disposition Act
- Body Armour Control Act
- Builders' Lien Act
- Canadian Forces Reservists Protection Act
- Child Pornography Reporting Act
- Civil Forfeiture Act
- Communications and Information Act (also under Communications Nova Scotia)
- Correctional Services Act
- Corrections Act
- Costs and Fees Act
- Court and Administrative Reform Act
- Court Houses and Lockup Houses Act
- Court Officials Act
- Divorce Act (Canada)
- Domestic Violence Intervention Act
- Enforcement of Canadian Judgments and Decrees Act
- Engineering Profession Act
- Expropriation Act
- Family Court Act
- Family Orders Information Release Act
- Fatality Investigations Act
- Flea Markets Regulation Act
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
- Gunshot Wounds Mandatory Reporting Act
- Interior Designers Act
- Interjurisdictional Support Orders Act
- Interpretation Act
- Interprovincial Subpoena Act
- Intestate Succession Act
- Intimate Images and Cyber-protection Act
- Judicature Act
- Juries Act
- Justices of the Peace Act
- Legal Aid Act
- Lobbyists' Registration Act (also under Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services)
- Maintenance Enforcement Act
- Medal of Bravery Act
- Members and Public Employees Disclosure Act
- Missing Persons Act
- Ombudsman Act
- Parenting and Support Act
- Personal Directives Act
- Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act
- Police Act
- Police Identity Management Act
- Police Services Act
- Prisons and Reformatories Act (Canada)
- Private Investigators and Private Guards Act
- Probate Act
- Provincial Court Act
- Public Trustee Act
- Reciprocal Enforcement of Custody Orders Act
- Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act
- Regulations Act
- Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act
- Service Dog Act
- Small Claims Court Act
- Summary Proceedings Act
- Time Definition Act
- Victims' Rights and Services Act
- Workers' Compensation Act (Workers' Compensation Appeal Backlog Regulations, Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal Alternative Dispute Resolution Regulations and Workers' Compensation Transitional Appeal Regulations only)
- Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada)
- Youth Justice Act
Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Adult Learning Act
- Amusement Devices Safety Act
- Apprenticeship and Trades Qualifications Act
- Cosmetology Act
- Court and Administrative Reform Act (Labour Relations Board Orders Regulations only)
- Electrical Installation and Inspection Act
- Elevators and Lifts Act
- Fair Registration Practices Act
- February Holiday Act
- Labour Board Act
- Labour Standards Code
- NewPage Port Hawkesbury Pension Plans Act
- Occupational Health and Safety Act
- Pay Equity Act
- Research Nova Scotia Corporation Act
- Registered Barbers Act
- Teachers' Collective Bargaining Act
- Technical Safety Act
- Trade Union Act
- Workers' Compensation Act (also under Justice)
Minister of Labour Relations
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Minister responsible for the Act
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act
- Retail Business Designated Day Closing Act
- Retail Business Uniform Closing Day Act
Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Assessment Act
- Building Code Act
- Emergency "911" Act
- Emergency Management Act
- Fire Safety Act
- Halifax Regional Municipality Charter
- Housing in the Halifax Regional Municipality Act
- Housing Nova Scotia Act
- Housing Supply and Services Act
- Municipal Elections Act
- Municipal Government Act
- Municipal Grants Act
- Oil Refineries and L.N.G. Plants Municipal Taxation Act
- Property Valuation Services Corporation Act
- Region of Windsor and West Hants Municipality Act
- Short-term Rentals Registration Act
Department of Natural Resources and Renewables
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Beaches Act
- Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act
- Community Easements Act
- Conservation Easements Act
- Crown Lands Act
- Electricity Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Energy Resources Conservation Act
- Energy-efficient Appliances Act
- Forests Act
- Gas Distribution Act
- Gypsum Mining Income Tax Act
- Land Surveyors Act
- Marine Renewable-energy Act
- Maritime Link Act
- Mineral Resources Act
- Mines Act
- Off-highway Vehicles Act (also under the Departments of Environment and Climate Change and Transportation and Active Transit)
- Offshore Petroleum Royalty Act
- Petroleum Resources Act
- Petroleum Resources Removal Permit Act
- Pipeline Act
- Primary Forest Products Marketing Act
- Provincial Parks Act
- Scalers Act
- Trails Act
- Underground Hydrocarbons Storage Act
- Wildlife Act (also under the Departments of Agriculture and Fisheries and Aquaculture)
Private Acts
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Public Service Commission
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Civil Service Act
- Civil Service Collective Bargaining Act
- Conflict of Interest Act
- Public Interest Disclosure of Wrongdoing Act
- Public Sector Compensation (1994-97) Act
- Public Sector Compensation Restraint Act
- Public Service Act
Department of Public Works
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Dangerous Goods Transportation Act
- Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission Act
- Highway 104 Western Alignment Act
- Motor Carrier Act
- Motor Vehicle Act
- Off-highway Vehicles Act (also under the Departments of Environment and Climate Change and Natural Resources and Renewables)
- Public Highways Act
- Railways Act
- Road Trails Act
- Surplus Crown Property Disposal Act
Nova Scotia Securities Commission
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.Department of Seniors and Long Term Care
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Homemakers' Services Act
- Homes for Special Care Act (also under Community Services)
- Protection for Persons in Care Act (also under Community Services)
- Social Assistance Act (also under Community Services)
Department of Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services
To view a list of regulations made under an Act, click on the name of the Act.- Business Electronic Filing Act
- Cemetery and Funeral Services Act
- Change of Name Act
- Collection and Debt Management Agencies Act
- Community Interest Companies Act
- Companies Act
- Condominium Act
- Consumer Creditors' Conduct Act
- Consumer Protection Act
- Consumer Reporting Act
- Corporations Registration Act
- Direct Sellers' Regulation Act
- Embalmers and Funeral Directors Act
- Gaming Control Act - Part II
- Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act
- Land Registration Act
- Limited Partnerships Act
- Lobbyists' Registration Act (also under Justice)
- Marketable Titles Act
- Marriage Act
- Mortgage Regulation Act
- Partnership Act
- Partnerships and Business Names Registration Act
- Personal Property Security Act
- Petroleum Products Pricing Act
- Private Investment Holding Companies Act
- Real Estate Trading Act
- Registry Act
- Rental Property Conversion Act
- Residential Tenancies Act
- Senior Citizens' Property Tax Rebate Act
- Societies Act
- Theatres and Amusements Act
- Vital Statistics Act