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Volume 57, No. 16

167/2014

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 9, 2014

B.C. Reg. 167/2014 , deposited September 5, 2014, under the AGRICULTURAL LAND COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT, 2014 [section 16] and the AGRICULTURAL LAND COMMISSION ACT [section 58]. Order in Council 500/2014, approved and ordered September 5, 2014.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

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a) the Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act, 2014 , S.B.C. 2014, c. 25, is brought into force, and

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b) the Agricultural Land Reserve Use, Subdivision and Procedure Regulation, B.C. Reg. 171/2002, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— N. LETNICK, Minister of Agriculture ; M. POLAK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Agricultural Land Reserve Use, Subdivision and Procedure Regulation, B.C. Reg. 171/2002, is amended by adding the following sections:

Determining residency in panel region

37.1

(1) In this section, “director” means the director of the Board Resourcing and Development Office.

(2) A person is a resident of a panel region if the person

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a) is a citizen or permanent resident of Canada,

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b) resides in the panel region, and

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c) intends to return to the panel region when absent.

(3) A person may not be appointed as a member of the commission, other than as chair of the commission, unless the person identifies to the director, in writing, one panel region of which the person is a resident.

(4) A person identifying the panel region of which the person is a resident must provide supporting evidence that subsection (2) applies to the person in relation to that panel region.

(5) The director may request additional supporting evidence.

(6) If the director is satisfied that a person is a resident of the panel region identified by the person, that person under subsection (3), the director must provide written confirmation of that fact to the following, as applicable:

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a) in the case of a person seeking to be appointed as a vice chair of the commission, the Lieutenant Governor in Council;

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b) in the case of a person seeking to be appointed as a member of the commission, other than the chair or a vice chair of the commission, the minister.

(7) Subject to

section 37.2, confirmation by the director that a person is a resident of a panel region is final and binding.

Notice before member ceases to be a resident of panel region

37.2

(1) A member of the commission, other than the chair, who intends to cease to be a resident of the panel region identified by the member under

section 37.1, must provide written notice to the chair and the minister.

(2) The notice must be provided before the member ceases to be a resident of the panel region.

(3) The notice must include whichever of the following dates applies to the member:

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a) the date the member intends to cease to be a resident of the panel region;

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b) an earlier date on which the member intends to resign from the commission.

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