Government of Prince Edward Island - Department of Justice and Public Safety

Provides an online database that allows the public to search the corporate registry for the following types of businesses:

• Sole proprietorship (single owner)
• Partnership (two or more owners)
• Corporation/Incorporated Company (has shareholders)
• Extra-Provincial Partnerships and Corporations
• Non-Profit (have members but do not have share capital)
• Co-operative (organized and owned by a group seeking to satisfy common needs through shared goods or services or combined available resources)
• Credit Unions

Conducts fire inspections, investigates complaints related to fire hazards from the public, completes plans review in new construction, provides public fire prevention education, and carries out fire investigations for PEI, except Charlottetown.

Provides free legal representation and assistance to income eligible individuals who have serious legal needs in the areas of criminal law, youth criminal justice, and family and civil law.

Provides support to Supreme Court, Provincial Court and the Court of Appeal and assists the public by providing information, filing or registering legal documents, and other matters related to the Courts. Types of court matters this office can provide assistance with include:

• Estates (wills and probate)
• General Section
• Small claim
• Family court
• Divorce proceedings
• Court records

Provides online and in-person information sessions to parents who are separating, divorcing or parenting from more than one home.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:

• Positive parenting
• Managing and reducing conflict
• Parents' experience of separation
• Children's' experience of separation
• What Children Need
• Parenting Plans
• How to Develop a Business-like Relationship with the Other Parent
• Legal Information

Program coordinators screenparticipants for the program and ensure that co-parents are not in the samegroup.

A school-based program for children who are experiencing changes in their lives due to parental separation, divorce or parenting from two homes. Trained facilitators work with school guidance counselors to guide children through age-appropriate activities and discussions. Topics include:

• Definition of family
• Changes that separation and divorce bring to a family
• How separation, divorce and parenting from two homes affects children
• Children's concerns about how the parents separating or divorcing will affect their future
• Ideas on how to help children talk with their parents

Helps to oversee the financial and/or personal affairs of individuals who are incapable of doing so themselves and who have no trusted family or friends to do so for them. Types of assistance provided by this office may include:

• Protecting the legal and financial interests of children under age 18 years
• Establishing and maintaining an infant Trust
• Protecting the legal, financial and personal and health care interests of vulnerable adults who require assistance in decision-making
• Acting as an independent interest for minors or persons with disabilities on insurance settlements or in court matters with financial implications to the person
• Administer the estates of missing or deceased persons

Provides a safe, neutral way for separated or divorced parents to have supervised parenting time or supervised pick-ups/drop-offs. Services include:

• Supervised parenting time so a child can spend time with their parent in a safe environment
• Supervised drop-offs and pick-ups to reduce risks of conflict when children move from one household to another
  

Judges of Provincial Court hear cases and exercise powers given to them by laws enacted by both the federal and provincial governments. Cases heard in Provincial Court include offences under the following legislation:

• Criminal Code of Canada
• Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
• Cannabis Act
• Fisheries Act
• Employment Insurance Act
• Income Tax Act
• Environmental Protection Act
• Highway Traffic Act
• Trespass of Property Act
• Dog Act
• City and municipal by-laws

Provides online versions of policies and forms specific to the Provincial Court of PEI, including:

• How to access Court files and documents
• Preliminary Inquiry forms and other forms
• Policy documents

Receives payments from people who have been ordered to pay financial restitution by Provincial Court as part of their sentence or who have received a fine under certain PEI laws such as:

• Highway Traffic Act
• Environmental Protection Act
• Trespass Act
• Off-Highway Vehicle Act
• Cannabis Act
• Liquor Control Act

Note on parking tickets: Parking tickets issued in Charlottetown must be paid at the Charlottetown City Police station and parking tickets issued in Summerside must be paid at Summerside City Hall.