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Volume 57, No. 21

208/2014

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 2, 2014

B.C. Reg. 208/2014 , deposited November 24, 2014, under the LOCAL ELECTIONS STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 2014 [section 192]. Order in Council 623/2014, approved and ordered November 21, 2014.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the 2014 Local Elections Campaign Financing Transitional Regulation, B.C. Reg. 107/2014, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— C. OAKES, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development ; T. LAKE, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The 2014 Local Elections Campaign Financing Transitional Regulation, B.C. Reg. 107/2014, is amended by adding the following section:

Nomination documents and endorsement documents respecting the 2014 general local election

5.2

(1) After the end of the period for conducting a judicial recount, the designated local government officer, under the Local Government Act , and the City Clerk, under the Vancouver Charter , must retain all nomination documents and endorsement documents that were filed with the chief election officer, or a person designated by the chief election officer, until December 31, 2015, for

(

a) the 2014 general local election, and

(

b) any by-election with a general voting day before December 31, 2015.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),

(a)

section 150 (6) (f) [retention and destruction of election materials] of the Local Government Act does not apply to nomination documents and endorsement documents that were filed with the chief election officer, or a person designated by the chief election officer, for

(

i) the 2014 general local election, or

(ii) any by-election with a general voting day before December 31, 2015,

in respect of elections under the Local Government Act , and

(b)

section 122 (6) (f) [retention and destruction of election materials] of the Vancouver Charter does not apply to nomination documents and endorsement documents that were filed with the chief election officer, or a person designated by the chief election officer, for

(

i) the 2014 general local election, or

(ii) any by-election with a general voting day before December 31, 2015,

in respect of elections under the Vancouver Charter .

(3) For certainty, if the BC chief electoral officer requires, under

section 76 (c) [additional specific powers to require information] of the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act , a local authority to provide to the BC chief electoral officer the original of a record and the local authority complies with that requirement, the local authority is not in contravention of any record keeping obligations under the Act, the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act , the Local Government Act or the Vancouver Charter .

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