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Volume 68, No. 11

122/2025

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 15, 2025

B.C. Reg. 122/2025 , deposited July 14, 2025, under the POLICE AMENDMENT ACT, 2024 [section 177] and POLICE ACT [sections 74 and 74.4]. Order in Council 367/2025, approved and ordered July 14, 2025.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective September 1, 2025,

(

a) the following provisions of the Police Amendment Act, 2024 , S.B.C. 2024, c. 16, are brought into force:

(

i) section 41, as it enacts the heading to

Part 5.1 and

section 30.1 of the Police Act ;

(ii) sections 45, 48, 49, 50 and 77 (a);

(iii)

section 83, as it enacts

section 74.4 (

a) of the Police Act , and

(

b) the attached Detention Guard Regulation is made.

— G. BEGG, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General ; R. KAHLON, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

DETENTION GUARD REGULATION

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Police Act ;

"health practitioner" means

(

a) a medical practitioner,

(

b) a nurse practitioner, or

(

c) any other person who is authorized to practise a designated health profession within the meaning of the Health Professions Act .

Health practitioners excluded from definition of "detention guard duties" in Act

2 The powers, duties and functions of a health practitioner are excluded from the definition of " detention guard duties " in

section 30.1 [definition for

Part 5.1] of the Act if

(

a) the powers, duties and functions are carried out in providing treatment or care to persons held in a place of detention, and

(

b) the treatment or care is provided under a contract or other arrangement with

(

i) a police service,

(ii) a municipal police board, or

(iii) a municipality.

Provisions of

Part 7.1 applicable to detention guards

3 The following provisions of

Part 7.1 [Independent Investigations Office] of the Act apply in relation to a detention guard as if the detention guard were an officer:

(

a) section 38.101 [officers to cooperate with independent investigations office] ;

(

b) section 38.102 [use of statements made by officers] .

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