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1st Session, 43rd Parliament

(2025) FIRST READING

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HONOURABLE NIKI SHARMA

ATTORNEY GENERAL

AND DEPUTY PREMIER

BILL 2 – 2025

ACTING CONFLICT OF INTEREST COMMISSIONER CONTINUATION ACT

Contents

Provision of Members' Conflict of Interest Act does not apply

Repeal

Commencement

This Bill disapplies the provision of the Members' Conflict of Interest Act that causes an acting Conflict of Interest Commissioner to cease to hold office when the Legislative Assembly has sat for 20 days after the date the acting commissioner was appointed.

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

Provision of Members' Conflict of Interest Act does not apply

(1) In this section, "commissioner" has the same meaning as in the Members' Conflict of Interest Act .

(2) Section 14 (7) (

c) of the Members' Conflict of Interest Act does not apply in respect of an acting commissioner appointed on or after January 6, 2025 under

section 14 (6) of that Act.

Repeal

2 This Act is repealed on March 31, 2026 or on an earlier date prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Commencement

3 The provisions of this Act referred to in column 1 of the following table come into force as set out in column 2 of the table:

Item

Column 1

Provisions of Act

Column 2

Commencement

Anything not elsewhere covered by this table

The date of Royal Assent

Section 1

January 6, 2025

Explanatory Note

This Bill disapplies the provision of the Members' Conflict of Interest Act that causes an acting Conflict of Interest Commissioner to cease to hold office when the Legislative Assembly has sat for 20 days after the date the acting commissioner was appointed.

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