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Volume 51, No. 21

B.C. Reg. 296/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 4, 2008

B.C. Reg. 296/2008 , deposited October 27, 2008, pursuant to the REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH ACT [Sections 15 and 29 (2)]. Order in Council 762/2008, approved and ordered October 24, 2008.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Representative for Children and Youth Regulation, B.C. Reg. 103/2007, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— W. OPPAL, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism; S. BOND, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 The Representative for Children and Youth Regulation, B.C. Reg. 103/2007, is amended by repealing sections 3 to 5 and substituting the following:

Additional designated services

3 For the purposes of the definition of "designated services" in the Act, the following services or programs are prescribed:

(

a) services or programs under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada);

(

b) the child in the home of a relative program, respecting which income assistance is provided under

section 6 of the Employment and Assistance Regulation.

Additional reviewable services

4 For the purposes of the definition of "reviewable services" in the Act, the following services or programs are prescribed:

(

a) services or programs under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada);

(

b) the child in the home of a relative program, respecting which income assistance is provided under

section 6 of the Employment and Assistance Regulation.

2 The following

section is added:

Multidisciplinary team

(1) Members appointed by the representative to the multidisciplinary team established under

section 15 of the Act may include

(

a) individuals with expertise in the following disciplines:

(

i) child welfare;

(ii) pathology;

(iii) pediatric medicine;

(iv) nursing;

(

v) education;

(vi) public health;

(vii) special needs and developmental disabilities, and

(

b) representatives of the following:

(

i) the aboriginal community;

(ii) the Ministry of Children and Family Development;

(iii) the Coroners Service of British Columbia;

(iv) the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or a municipal police force.

(2) An appointment to the multidisciplinary team is for a term of up to 2 years, as set by the representative, and may be renewed by the representative.

(3) In addition to members appointed for a term as described in subsection (2), the representative may appoint members to the multidisciplinary team on an ad hoc basis, for the purposes of one or more reviews or investigations under

Part 4 of the Act, as the representative considers advisable based on the circumstances of the matter under review or investigation.

(4) Before participating on the multidisciplinary team, a member must sign and file with the representative an undertaking to comply with any standards of conduct issued by the representative.

(5) Meetings of the multidisciplinary team must be chaired by the representative or a person from the representative's office assigned by the representative.

(6) The representative may

(

a) reimburse the members of the multidisciplinary team, in accordance with general directives of the Treasury Board, for reasonable and necessary travelling and out of pocket expenses incurred in carrying out their duties, and

(

b) pay the members a fee set by the representative.

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