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Volume 62, No. 23

251/2019

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 3, 2019

B.C. Reg. 251/2019 , deposited November 29, 2019, under the PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT [sections 48 and 53]. Order in Council 616/2019, approved and ordered November 29, 2019.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders the following:

1 Effective December 1, 2019,

(

a) the Public Interest Disclosure Act , S.B.C. 2018, c. 22, is brought into force, and

(

b) the attached Public Interest Disclosure Regulation, except

section 2, is made.

2 Effective January 1, 2020,

section 2 of the Public Interest Disclosure Regulation

is made.

— D. EBY, Attorney General ; C. JAMES, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE REGULATION

Definition

1 In this regulation, "Act" means the Public Interest Disclosure Act .

Relationship of Act to other enactments – exception

2 For the purposes of

section 3 (1) (b) [relationship of Act to other Acts] of the Act,

section 38 of the Witness Security Act prevails.

Additional circumstances for refusing or stopping investigation

(1) For the purposes of

section 22 (2) (g) [circumstances for refusing or stopping investigation] of the Act, a prescribed reason is that the investigation of the disclosure would

serve no useful purpose because the subject matter of the disclosure is being, or

has been, appropriately dealt with.

(2) For the purposes of

section 22 (2) (

g) of the Act, in relation to the investigation

of a complaint of reprisal under

section 35 of the Act, a prescribed reason is that

the subject matter of the complaint of reprisal relates primarily to a matter that

is being, or has been, appropriately dealt with under a collective agreement or employment

contract.

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