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Volume 48, No. 4

B.C. Reg. 50/2005

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 22, 2005

B.C. Reg. 50/2005, deposited February 18, 2005, pursuant

to the REFERENDUM ACT [Section 6]. Order in Council 126/2005,

approved and ordered February 18, 2005.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor,

by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the

Electoral Referendum Regulation, B.C. Reg. 47/2005, is amended by

repealing

section 13 and substituting the following:

Referendum advertising

(1) Part 11 [Election Communications]

of the Election Act , other than the provisions referred to in subsection (2),

is adopted and applies in relation to the referendum as if it were an election

for a candidate in the general election and, without limiting this, that

Part

is adopted and applies to referendum advertising as if it were election advertising

in relation to an election for a candidate in the general election.

(2) The following provisions of

Part 11 of the Election Act do not apply in relation to the referendum:

(

a) section 232 [restriction on rates charged for

election advertising] ;

(b)

section 239 (2) [registration exception for candidates,

parties and constituency associations] ;

(

c) section 243 [reregistration] ;

(d)

section 244 (3) [report filing exception for candidates,

parties and constituency associations] ;

(e)

section 245 (1) (b) [contributions to be disclosed] .

(3) Section 234 [restriction on election campaigning

near election offices and voting places] of the Election Act

does not apply in relation to copies of the Final Report of the British Columbia

Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.

(4) In place of

section 245 (1) (b) [contributions

to be disclosed] of the Election Act , a report under that

section

in relation to referendum advertising must include the amount of contributions

accepted by the sponsor during the referendum campaign period, reported in accordance

with subsections (2) to (4) of that section.

— P. G. PLANT, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Treaty

Negotiations; S. BRICE , Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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