91/2016

O.C. 226/2016

April 15, 2016

Community Charter; Greater Vancouver Sewerage

and Drainage District Act; Greater Vancouver

Water District Act; Islands Trust Act

Conflict of Interest Exceptions Regulation

Definitions

In this regulation:

Act means the Community Charter ;

council representative means a member of a municipal council appointed by that council to the board of an entity;

entity means any of the following:

a society or extraprovincial society;

a corporation, other than a society or extraprovincial society, incorporated by a public authority, that provides a service to the following:

a municipality of which a council member is appointed to the board of the corporation;

a regional district of which a regional district director is appointed to the board of the corporation;

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a greater board of which a board member is appointed to the board of the corporation;

the Islands Trust of which an Islands Trust trustee is appointed to the board of the corporation;

extraprovincial society has the same meaning as in the Society Act ;

governing body means any of the following:

the council of a municipality;

the board of a regional district;

the board of a greater board;

the trust council;

greater board representative means a member of a board of a greater board appointed by that board to the board of an entity;

Islands Trust representative means an Islands Trust trustee appointed by the trust council to the board of an entity;

Islands Trust trustee means a local trustee or a municipal trustee within the meaning of the Islands Trust Act ;

regional district director means a director in relation to a regional district within the meaning of the Local Government Act ;

regional district representative means a regional district director appointed by the board of a regional district to the board of an entity;

representative means any of the following:

a council representative;

a regional district representative;

a greater board representative;

an Islands Trust representative;

society has the same meaning as in the Society Act ;

specified interest means any of the following:

an expenditure of public funds to or on behalf of an entity;

an advantage, benefit, grant or other form of assistance to or on behalf of an entity;

an acquisition or disposition of an interest or right in real or personal property that results in an advantage, benefit or disadvantage to or on behalf of an entity;

an agreement respecting a matter described in paragraph (a), (

b) or (c).

Nature of pecuniary interest

For the purposes of

section 104 (1) (e) [exceptions from conflict restrictions] of the Act, a pecuniary interest in relation to a representative in the nature of a specified interest that arises as a result of

the representative being appointed by a governing body to the board of the entity, and

the representative

attending any part of a meeting during which the specified interest is under consideration by the following:

the governing body;

a committee of the governing body;

any other body referred to in

section 93 [application of rules to other bodies] of the Act,

participating in any discussion of the specified interest at such a meeting, or

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voting on a question in respect of the specified interest at such a meeting

is prescribed.

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Community Charter , S.B.C. 2003, c. 26,

section 104 (1) (e); Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District Act , S.B.C. 1956, c. 59,

section 8 (5); Greater Vancouver Water District Act , S.B.C. 1924, c. 22,

section 10 (5); Islands Trust Act , R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 239,

section 6 (7)]