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2002 Legislative Session: 3rd Session, 37th Parliament

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HONOURABLE GEOFF PLANT

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER

RESPONSIBLE FOR TREATY NEGOTIATIONS

BILL 72 – 2002

LOBBYISTS REGISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 2002

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Section 11 (2) (

c) of the Lobbyists Registration Act, S.B.C.

2001, c. 42, is repealed and the following substituted:

(

c) prescribing any fee required to be paid under paragraph (

b) or the manner of determining the fee, and providing for different fees or for the waiver of a fee based on one or more of the following:

(

i) the manner in which a return is submitted to the registrar;

(ii) the time at or within which a return is submitted to the registrar;

(iii) the class of lobbyist by or in relation to whom

a return is submitted to the registrar; .

Transitional

(1) In this section, "consultant lobbyist"

and "registrar" have the same meaning as in the Lobbyists Registration

Act .

(2) Despite

section 3 (1) (

a) of the Lobbyists Registration Act, a person who was a consultant lobbyist on October 28, 2002 must, within 30 days after that date, file with the registrar a return in the form prescribed by that Act and containing the information required by

section 4 of that Act.

Commencement

Section 2 is deemed to have come into force on October 28, 2002 and is retroactive to the extent necessary to give it effect on and after that date.

Explanatory Notes

SECTION 1: [Lobbyists Registration Act, repeals and replaces

section

11 (2) (c)] allows for regulations to be made to provide different fees,

or a waiver of fees, based on the time at or within which or the class of lobbyist

by or on behalf of whom a return is filed with the registrar.

SECTION 2: [Transitional] requires and provides for registration

under the Lobbyists Registration Act by persons who were consultant lobbyists

on the date the Lobbyists Registration Act came into force.

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