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Volume 68, No. 11

114/2025

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 15, 2025

B.C. Reg. 114/2025 , deposited July 14, 2025, under the POLICE ACT [section 74.3]. Order in Council 356/2025, approved and ordered July 14, 2025.

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

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the attached Municipal

Police Board Member Training Compliance Regulation is made.

— G. BEGG, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General ; R. KAHLON, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

MUNICIPAL POLICE BOARD

MEMBER TRAINING COMPLIANCE REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

Application

Discipline – LGiC appointees

Discipline – other appointees

Reappointment of disciplined members

Prohibited conduct while suspended

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Police Act ;

"chair" means a member elected by a municipal police board as chair or acting as chair of a municipal police board in accordance with

section 25 [election of chair and vice chair of municipal police board] of the Act;

"vice chair" means a member elected by a municipal police board as vice chair in accordance with

section 25 of the Act.

Application

2 This regulation applies to

(

a) a member of a municipal police board, and

(

b) a member of the amalgamated board continued under the Victoria and Esquimalt Municipal Policing Reorganization Regulation, B.C. Reg. 205/2024, as if the member were a member of a municipal police board.

Discipline – LGiC appointees

(1) This

section applies to a member of a municipal police board appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) If the director considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under

section 68.2 (1) [duty of board members to complete training] of the Act, the director may do one or both of the following:

(

a) provide a verbal warning to the member;

(

b) provide a written warning to the member.

(3) If, on the recommendation of the director and the minister, the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under

section 68.2 (1) of the Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may do one or more of the following:

(

i) the member must complete a specified training program within a specified period;

(ii) the member is restricted from holding the office of chair or vice chair;

(iii) any other term or condition that the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers appropriate;

(

c) rescind the member’s appointment.

Discipline – other appointees

(1) This

section applies to a member of a municipal police board not appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) If the director considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under

section 68.2 (1) [duty of board members to complete training] of the Act, the director may do one or both of the following:

(

a) provide a verbal warning to the member;

(

b) provide a written warning to the member.

(3) If, on the recommendation of the director, the minister considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under

section 68.2 (1) of the Act, the minister may do one or more of the following:

(

i) the member must complete a specified training program within a specified period;

(ii) the member is restricted from holding the office of chair or vice chair;

(iii) any other term or condition that the minister considers appropriate;

(

c) remove the member.

Reappointment of disciplined members

(1) A person must not be appointed to any police board for a period of 4 years if

(

a) the person’s appointment to a municipal police board was rescinded in accordance with

section 3, or

(

b) the person was removed from a municipal police board in accordance with

section 4.

(2) If an appointment is made contrary to subsection (1), that appointment is invalid.

Prohibited conduct while suspended

(1) For the purposes of this regulation, a member of a municipal police board who is suspended must not do any of the following:

(

a) attend meetings of the board;

(

b) publicly represent oneself as an active regular member of a municipal police board.

(2) A member of a municipal police board must not provide to a suspended member of the board any information or records received as a member of the board, unless the information or records are publicly accessible.

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