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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ........................................................ iii Administrative Tribunals Act S.B.C. 2004, c. 45 .............................................. 1 Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3 ............................................ 53 Orderly Payment of Debts Regulations Can. Reg. 369 ................................................ 58 Community Services Labour Relations Act S.B.C. 2003, c. 27 ............................................. 83 Criminal Records Review Act R.S.B.C 1996, c. 86 ........................................... 87 Criminal Record Check Authorizations Regulation B.C. Reg. 386/2007 ........................................... 117 Criminal Record Check Fee Regulation B.C Reg. 238/2002 ........................................... 121 Prescribed Programs Regulation B.C. Reg. 173/2002 ........................................... 122 Education Services Collective Agreement Act S.B.C. 2002, c. 1 ............................................ 125 Employee Investment Act R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 112 ......................................... 131 Employment Standards Act R.S.B.C 1996, c. 113 .......................................... 161 Compassionate Care Leave Regulation B.C. Reg. 281/2006 ........................................... 216 Employment Standards Regulation B.C. Reg. 396/95 ............................................ 218 Reservists’ Leave Regulation B.C. Reg. 254/2016 ........................................... 265 Rules of Practice and Procedure ......................................................... 267 Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 142 ......................................... 307 Fishing Collective Bargaining Act v

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Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Administrative Tribunals Act

S.B.C. 2004, c. 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act

R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Orderly Payment of Debts Regulations

Can. Reg. 369 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Community Services Labour Relations Act

S.B.C. 2003, c. 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Criminal Records Review Act

R.S.B.C 1996, c. 86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Criminal Record Check Authorizations Regulation

B.C. Reg. 386/2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Criminal Record Check Fee Regulation

B.C Reg. 238/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Prescribed Programs Regulation

B.C. Reg. 173/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Education Services Collective Agreement Act

S.B.C. 2002, c. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Employee Investment Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 112 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Employment Standards Act

R.S.B.C 1996, c. 113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Compassionate Care Leave Regulation

B.C. Reg. 281/2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Employment Standards Regulation

B.C. Reg. 396/95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Reservists’ Leave Regulation

B.C. Reg. 254/2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Rules of Practice and Procedure

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 142 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Fishing Collective Bargaining Act

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R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Forestry Service Providers Protection Act

S.B.C. 2010, c. 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 165 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Regulation

B.C. Reg. 155/2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Health Authorities Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Human Rights Code

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 210 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

Human Rights Code Regulation

B.C. Reg. 373/96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

BC Human Rights Tribunal Rules of Practice and Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Human Rights Tribunal Rules of Practice and Procedure

Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Labour Mobility Act

S.B.C. 2009, c. 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Labour Relations Code

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 244 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627

Labour Relations Board Fees Regulation

B.C Reg. 395/2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684

Labour Relations Regulation

B.C. Reg. 7/93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

Prescribed Time Periods for Decisions Regulation

B.C Reg. 49/2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

British Columbia Labour Relations Board Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Labour Relations Board

Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Pension Benefits Standards Act

S.B.C. 2012, c. 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809

Pension Benefits Standards Regulation

B.C. Reg. 71/2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887

Personal Information Protection Act

S.B.C. 2003, c. 63 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057

Personal Information Protection Act Regulations

B.C. Reg. 473/2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084

Public Education Collective Agreement Act

S.B.C. 1998, c. 41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087

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Public Education Labour Relations Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 382 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1089

Public Sector Employers Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 384 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

Crown Agency Employers Exemption Regulation

B.C Reg. 177/2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1111

Employment Termination Standards

B.C Reg. 379/97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112

Health Care Employers Regulation

B.C. Reg. 427/94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116

Senior Employee Base Salary Regulation

B.C. Reg. 319/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123

Social Services Employers Regulation

B.C. Reg. 84/2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124

Public Service Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 385 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131

Definition Regulation

B.C. Reg. 279/98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144

Employment Insurance Regulation

B.C. Reg. 401/98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145

Hours of Service Regulation

B.C. Reg. 154/78 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146

Excluded Employees Indemnity Protection Regulation

B.C. Reg. 72/2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1147

Political Staff Oath Regulation

B.C. Reg. 66/2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148

Resignation Regulation

B.C. Reg. 132/77 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149

Review of Staffing Decisions Regulation

B.C. Reg. 443/2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1150

Salary Range Regulation

B.C. Reg. 152/2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151

Standards of Conduct for Political Staff Regulation

B.C. Reg. 67/2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1154

Vacation Entitlement for Re-Employed Appointees Regulation

B.C. Reg. 6/2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1161

Public Service Labour Relations Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 388 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1163

Public Service Labour Relations Regulations

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B.C. Reg. 22/74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1175

Teachers’ Collective Agreement Act

S.B.C. 2005, c. 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

Workers Compensation Act

R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 492 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179

Boards of Review Regulation

B.C. Reg. 31/81 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321

Firefighters’ Occupational Disease Regulation

B.C. Reg. 125/2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1327

Fishing Industry Regulations

B.C. Reg. 674/76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329

Lower Maximum Administrative Penalties Regulation

B.C. Reg. 194/2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333

Occupational Disease Recognition Regulation

B.C. Reg. 71/99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336

Occupational Health and Safety Regulation

B.C. Reg. 296/97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338

Reports of Injuries Regulations

B.C. Reg. 713/74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865

Time Period for Review Regulation

B.C. Reg. 164/2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1866

Transitional Review and Appeal Regulation

B.C. Reg. 322/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1867

Workers Compensation Act Appeal Regulation

B.C. Reg. 321/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1868

Workers’ Compensation Act (Review Board) Regulation

B.C. Reg. 32/86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1870

Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal Compensation Regulation

B.C. Reg. 359/2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1873

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877

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ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Application by incorporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Chair’s initial term and reappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Member’s initial term and reappointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Appointment of acting chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Member’s absence or incapacitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Temporary, non-renewable appointments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Powers after resignation or expiry of term . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.1 Validity of tribunal acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Termination for cause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Responsibilities of the chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 Remuneration and benefits for members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.1 Designating clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.2 Executive chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410.3 Tribunal chairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510.4 Alternate executive chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510.5 Validity of tribunal acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510.6 Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 General power to make rules respecting practice and procedure . . . . 612 Practice directives tribunal must make . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 Practice directives tribunal may make . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714 General power to make orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715 Interim orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 Consent orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817 Withdrawal or settlement of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818 Failure of party to comply with tribunal orders and rules . . . . . . . . . 819 Service of notice or documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 When failure to serve does not invalidate proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . 921 Notice of hearing by publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 Notice of appeal (inclusive of prescribed fee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923 Notice of appeal (exclusive of prescribed fee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924 Time limit for appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025 Appeal does not operate as stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 Organization of tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027 Staff of tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1128 Facilitated settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129 Disclosure protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130 Tribunal duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1131 Summary dismissal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132 Representation of parties to an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233 Interveners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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34 Power to compel witnesses and order disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1235 Recording tribunal proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1336 Form of hearing of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1337 Applications involving similar questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1338 Examination of witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339 Adjournments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440 Information admissible in tribunal proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1441 Hearings open to public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1442 Discretion to receive evidence in confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443 Discretion to refer questions of law to court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1544 Tribunal without jurisdiction over constitutional questions . . . . . . . 1545 Tribunal without jurisdiction over Canadian Charter of Rights and

Freedoms issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1546 Notice to Attorney General if constitutional question raised in application

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1646.1 Discretion to decline jurisdiction to apply the Human Rights Code . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1646.2 Limited jurisdiction and discretion to decline jurisdiction to apply the

Human Rights Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1746.3 Tribunal without jurisdiction to apply the Human Rights Code . . . . 1747 Power to award costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847.1 Security for costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847.2 Government and agents of government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1848 Maintenance of order at hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1849 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative witness or other person . . . 1950 Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1951 Final decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1952 Notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953 Amendment to final decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2054 Enforcement of tribunal’s final decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2055 Compulsion protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2056 Immunity protection for tribunal and members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2057 Time limit for judicial review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2158 Standard of review if tribunal’s enabling Act has privative clause . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2159 Standard of review if tribunal’s enabling Act has no privative clause

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259.1 Surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2259.2 Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2260 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2361 Application of Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2362 Application of Act to BC Review Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Consequential amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY ACT

PART V — ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Scheme of Distribution136 Priority of claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53137 Postponement of claims — creditor not at arm’s length . . . . . . . . . 55138 [Repealed 2007, c. 36, s. 48.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55139 Postponement of claims of silent partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55140 Postponement of wage claims of officers and directors . . . . . . . . . . 56140.1 Postponement of equity claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56141 Claims generally payable rateably . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56142 Partners and separate properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56143 Interest from date of bankruptcy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56144 Right of bankrupt to surplus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56145 Proceeds of liability insurance policy on motor vehicles . . . . . . . . . 56146 Application of provincial law to lessors’ rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57147 Levy payable out of dividends for supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

CAN. REG. 369 — ORDERLY PAYMENT OF DEBTS REGULATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

COMMUNITY SERVICES LABOUR RELATIONS ACT1 Definitions and interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832 CSSEA as bargaining agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 Bargaining units of agency employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834 Association of unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845 Vote for one union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 Volunteers and family home providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 Labour relations matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858 Application of the Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENT

Community Services Interim Authorities Act9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8610 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

CRIMINAL RECORDS REVIEW ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913 Equivalent standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

PART 2 — CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK AND RECONSIDERATION4 Criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914.1 Completion of criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945 Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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6 Use of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

PART 2.1 — CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK VERIFICATION6.1 Criminal record check verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

PART 3 — EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES7 Application of Part 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978 General duty of employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979 Applicants for employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9810 Existing employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9810.1 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9811 Effect of finding of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9911.1 Effect of finding of risk — working with vulnerable adults . . . . . . . 9912 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

PART 4 — REGISTERED MEMBERS13 General duty of governing body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10014 Applicants for registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10015 Existing registered members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10115.1 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10116 Effect of finding of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10117 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

PART 4.1 — REGISTERED STUDENTS17.1 General duty of education institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10217.2 Registered students working with children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10317.21 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10317.3 Effect of finding of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10317.31 Effect of finding of risk — working with vulnerable adults . . . . . . 10317.4 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

PART 4.2 — DIRECTOR OF CERTIFICATION17.41 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10417.5 Duty of director of certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10417.6 Applications for certificates and letters of permission . . . . . . . . . . 10417.7 Existing certification holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10517.71 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10517.8 Effect of finding of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10517.9 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

PART 5 — UNLICENSED FAMILY CHILD CARE PROVIDERS18 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10619 General duty of minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10620 Applicants for registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10621 Existing child care providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10621.1 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10722 Effect of finding of risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10723 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10724 Other persons at facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

PART 5.1 — SPECIFIED ORGANIZATIONS AND VOLUNTEERS24.1 Registration of specified organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10824.2 Deregistration of specified organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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24.3 General duty of registered specified organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . 10824.4 Applicants for volunteering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10924.5 Existing volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10924.6 No portable criminal record check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10924.7 Effect of finding of risk — working with children . . . . . . . . . . . . 11024.8 Effect of finding of risk — working with vulnerable adults . . . . . . 11024.9 New convictions or outstanding charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

PART 6 — GENERAL25-26 [Repealed 2002, c. 52, s. 34.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11127 Criminal record check authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11127.01 Criminal record check verification authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11127.1 Waiver of fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11127.2 Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11228 Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11228.1 Request for records or information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11229 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

ScheduleSchedule 1 Relevant Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

ScheduleSchedule 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

ScheduleSchedule 3 Specified Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

B.C. REG. 386/2007 — CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK AUTHORIZATIONSREGULATION

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

B.C. REG. 238/2002 — CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK FEE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

B.C. REG. 173/2002 — PRESCRIBED PROGRAMS REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

EDUCATION SERVICES COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252 Constitution of teachers’ collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253 Resolution of disputes regarding agreed provisions . . . . . . . . . . . 1264 Amalgamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265 Review of collective bargaining structures, practices and procedures

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287 Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

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SCHEDULESchedule Article A.1: Term, Continuation and Renegotiation . . . . . . . . . . . 128

EMPLOYEE INVESTMENT ACT1 Definitions and interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

PART 1 — EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP PLANS2 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1353 Criteria for corporation eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1364 Conditions for plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1365 Additional equity capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1386 Use of funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1387 Tax credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

PART 2 — EMPLOYEE VENTURE CAPITAL PLANS8 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409 Criteria for corporation eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14010 Conditions for plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14111 Permanent establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14312 Limits on equity capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14313 Minimum investment requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14314 Additional equity capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14415 Eligible investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14416 Investment for certain purposes prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14517 Control of eligible business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14618 Non-arm’s length investments prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14619 Aggregate investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14720 Action to be taken if investment becomes prohibited . . . . . . . . . . 14721 [Repealed 1997, c. 27 s. 19] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14722 Permitted investments and authorized expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14723 Investment protection account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14824 Tax credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14925 Fractional shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15026 Paid up capital accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

PART 3 — GENERAL27 Certification of employee group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15128 Cost sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15129 The register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15230 Annual maximum tax credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15231 Repayment of tax credit — sale of shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15332 Third party liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15433 Reporting requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15434 Keeping of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15435 Revocation and suspension of plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15536 Examination of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15537 Investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15638 Investigator’s power at hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15639 Report to administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15640 General provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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41 Extension of time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15841.1 Liability protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15842 Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15843 Limitation period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15944 Regulations and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1612 Purposes of this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643 Scope of this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1654 Requirements of this Act cannot be waived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665 Promoting awareness of employment standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667 [Repealed 2003, c. 65, s. 2.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

PART 2 — HIRING EMPLOYEES8 No false representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1679 Hiring children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16710 No charge for hiring or providing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16711 No fees to other persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16712 Employment agencies must be licensed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16712.1 [Proposed] Silviculture contractors must be licensed . . . . . . . . . . 16813 Farm labour contractors must be licensed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16814 Written employment contract required for domestics . . . . . . . . . . 16815 Register of employees working in residences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

PART 3 — WAGES, SPECIAL CLOTHING AND RECORDS16 Employers required to pay minimum wage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16817 Paydays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16818 If employment is terminated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16919 If employee cannot be located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16920 How wages are paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16921 Deductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16922 Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16923 Employer’s duty to make assigned payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17024 How an assignment is cancelled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17025 Special clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17026 Payments by employer to funds, insurers or others . . . . . . . . . . . 17127 Wage statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17128 Payroll records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17129 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 10.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17230 Producer and farm labour contractor are liable for unpaid wages . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17230.1 Liability of farm labour contractor for transportation costs . . . . . . 17230.2 Enforcement of administrative fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

PART 4 — HOURS OF WORK AND OVERTIME31 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17332 Meal breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

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33 Split shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17334 Minimum daily hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17335 Maximum hours of work before overtime applies . . . . . . . . . . . . 17436 Hours free from work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17437 Agreements to average hours of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17438 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 18.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17639 No excessive hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17640 Overtime wages for employees not on a flexible work schedule . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17641 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 20.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17742 Banking of overtime wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17743 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 22.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

PART 5 — STATUTORY HOLIDAYS44 Entitlement to statutory holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17845 Statutory holiday pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17846 If employee is required to work on statutory holiday . . . . . . . . . . 17847 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 23.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17848 Substituting another day for a statutory holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17849 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 25.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

PART 6 — LEAVES AND JURY DUTY50 Pregnancy leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17951 Parental leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17952 Family responsibility leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18052.1 Compassionate care leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18052.2 Reservists’ leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18152.3 Leave respecting disappearance of child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18252.4 Leave respecting death of child . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18353 Bereavement leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18354 Duties of employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18355 Jury duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18456 Employment deemed continuous while employee on leave or jury duty

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

PART 7 — ANNUAL VACATION57 Entitlement to annual vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18458 Vacation pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18559 Other payments or benefits do not affect vacation rights . . . . . . . . 18560 Common date for calculating vacation entitlement . . . . . . . . . . . . 18561 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 29.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

PART 8 — TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT62 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18563 Liability resulting from length of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18564 Group terminations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18665 Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18766 Director may determine employment has been terminated . . . . . . . 18867 Rules about notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18868 Rules about payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18869 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 34.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18870 [Repealed 2002, c. 42, s. 35.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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PART 9 — VARIANCES72 Application for variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18973 Power to grant variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

PART 10 — COMPLAINTS, INVESTIGATIONS AND DETERMINATIONS74 Complaint and time limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19075 If complainant requests identity be kept confidential . . . . . . . . . . 19076 Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19077 Opportunity to respond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19178 Settlement agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19179 Determinations and consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19180 Limit on amount of wages required to be paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19281 Notifying others of determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19382 No other proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19383 Employee not to be mistreated because of complaint or investigation

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19484 Power to compel persons to answer questions and order disclosure . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19484.1 Maintenance of order at hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19484.2 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19484.3 Immunity protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19585 Entry and inspection powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19586 Power to reconsider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19586.1 No jurisdiction to determine constitutional question . . . . . . . . . . . 19686.2 Director without jurisdiction to apply the Human Rights Code . . . 196

PART 11 — ENFORCEMENT87 Lien for unpaid wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19688 Payment of interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19789 Demand on third party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19890 Failure to comply with demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19891 Determination or order may be filed and enforced as judgment . . . 19892 Seizure of assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19993 Release of assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19994 Wrongful removal of seized assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19995 Associated corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20096 Corporate officer’s liability for unpaid wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20097 Sale of business or assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20098 Monetary penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20099 If money is paid to director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201100 Security to ensure compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202101 Publication of violators’ names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202101.1 Searching of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

PART 12 — EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS TRIBUNAL102 Employment Standards Tribunal continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203103 Application of Administrative Tribunals Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203104 Chair may delegate authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204105 Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204106 Organization of tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

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107-108 [Repealed 2004, c. 45, s. 91.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204109 Other powers of tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205110 Exclusive jurisdiction of tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205111 [Repealed 2004, c. 45, s. 91.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

PART 13 — APPEALS112 Appeal of director’s determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205113 Director’s determination may be suspended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206114 After an appeal is requested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206115 Tribunal’s orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207116 Reconsideration of orders and decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

PART 14 — GENERAL PROVISIONS117 Director’s power to delegate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208118 Right to sue preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208119 Extraprovincial certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208120 Warrant to carry out inspection powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209121 Director cannot be required to give evidence in other proceedings . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209122 Service of determinations and demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209123 Irregularities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209124 Limitation period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210125 Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210126 Evidence and burden of proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210127 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

PART 15 — TRANSITIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS128 Transition from former Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212129 Transitional regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

B.C. REG. 281/2006 — COMPASSIONATE CARE LEAVE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

B.C. REG. 396/95 — EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

B.C. REG. 254/2016 — RESERVISTS’ LEAVE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

FIRE AND POLICE SERVICES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

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2 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3073 Settlement of dispute by arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3074 Settlement by arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3085 Referral of questions to the Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . 309

FISHING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3112 Application of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3113 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3114 Voluntary recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3115 Unfair labour practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3126 Successor rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3127 Strike or lockout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3128 Dismissal provision in collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3129 Determination of appropriate unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31210 First collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31211 Change during certification or bargaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31212 Effect of certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31313 Refusal to purchase fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31314 Jurisdiction of Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

FORESTRY SERVICE PROVIDERS PROTECTION ACT1 Definitions and application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

PART 1 — LIENS AND CHARGES2 Contractor’s lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3163 Discharge of contractor’s lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3164 Registration of contractor’s lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3165 Priority of contractor’s lien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3176 Contractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3177 Discharge of contractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3178 Registration of contractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3179 Priority of contractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31710 Payment by account debtor of forest products owner . . . . . . . . . . 31811 Subcontractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31812 Discharge of subcontractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31813 Registration of subcontractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31814 Priority of subcontractor’s charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31915 Payment by account debtor of contractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31916 Discharge of invalid registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31917 Seizure and sale of forest products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32018 Distribution of lien fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32019 Distribution of charge fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32120 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32221 Court orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32222 Certain agreements or undertakings void . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32323 Notice of lien or charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32324 Service of notices and demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

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PART 2 — FORESTRY SERVICE PROVIDERS COMPENSATION FUND25 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32426 Forestry Service Providers Compensation Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32427 Payments to fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32428 Applications for compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32529 Payments from fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32530 Decision is final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32531 Designation of authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32532 Administrative agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32533 Authority not an agent of government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

PART 3 — GENERAL33.1 Personal Property Security Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32634 Section 5 of Offence Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32635 Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Consequential AmendmentTugboat Worker Lien Act

36 [Repealed 2012, c. 14, s. 8.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32737 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3302 Purposes of this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303 Scope of this Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

PART 2 — FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

DIVISION 1 — INFORMATION RIGHTS AND HOW TO EXERCISE THEM4 Information rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3325 How to make a request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3326 Duty to assist applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3327 Time limit for responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3328 Contents of response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3339 How access will be given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33410 Extending the time limit for responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33411 Transferring a request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

DIVISION 2 — EXCEPTIONS12 Cabinet and local public body confidences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33513 Policy advice, recommendations or draft regulations . . . . . . . . . . 33614 Legal advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33715 Disclosure harmful to law enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33716 Disclosure harmful to intergovernmental relations or negotiations . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33817 Disclosure harmful to the financial or economic interests of a public body

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33818 Disclosure harmful to the conservation of heritage sites, etc. . . . . . 33919 Disclosure harmful to individual or public safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33920 Information that will be published or released within 60 days . . . . 339

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21 Disclosure harmful to business interests of a third party . . . . . . . . 34022 Disclosure harmful to personal privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34022.1 Disclosure of information relating to abortion services . . . . . . . . . 342

DIVISION 3 — NOTICE TO THIRD PARTIES23 Notifying the third party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34324 Time limit and notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

DIVISION 4 — PUBLIC INTEREST PARAMOUNT25 Information must be disclosed if in the public interest . . . . . . . . . 344

PART 3 — PROTECTION OF PRIVACY

DIVISION 1 — COLLECTION, PROTECTION AND RETENTION OF PERSONALINFORMATION BY PUBLIC BODIES

26 Purpose for which personal information may be collected . . . . . . . 34427 How personal information is to be collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34527.1 When personal information is not collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34728 Accuracy of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34729 Right to request correction of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . 34730 Protection of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34730.1 Storage and access must be in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34830.2 Obligation to report foreign demand for disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 34830.3 Whistle-blower protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34930.4 Unauthorized disclosure prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34930.5 Notification of unauthorized disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34931 Retention of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34931.1 Application to employees and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

DIVISION 2 — USE AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY PUBLICBODIES

32 Use of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35033 Disclosure of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35033.1 Disclosure inside or outside Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35033.2 Disclosure inside Canada only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35333.3 Disclosure of personal information in records available to public without

request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35434 Definition of consistent purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35435 Disclosure for research or statistical purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35436 Disclosure for archival or historical purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

DIVISION 3 — DATA-LINKING INITIATIVES36.1 Data-linking initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

PART 4 — OFFICE AND POWERS OF INFORMATION AND PRIVACY COMMISSIONER37 Appointment of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35638 Resignation, removal or suspension of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . 35739 Acting commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35740 Salary, expenses and benefits of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35741 Staff of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35842 General powers of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35843 Power to authorize a public body to disregard requests . . . . . . . . 35944 Powers of commissioner in conducting investigations, audits or inquiries

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35944.1 Maintenance of order at hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

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44.2 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36045 Statements made to the commissioner not admissible in evidence . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36046 Protection against libel or slander actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36147 Restrictions on disclosure of information by the commissioner and staff

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36148 Protection of commissioner and staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36249 Delegation by commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36250 Role of Ombudsperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36251 Annual report of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

PART 5 — REVIEWS AND COMPLAINTS

DIVISION 1 — REVIEWS BY THE COMMISSIONER52 Right to ask for a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36353 How to ask for a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36354 Notifying others of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36354.1 Order for severing of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36455 Mediation may be authorized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36456 Inquiry by commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36457 Burden of proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36458 Commissioner’s orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36559 Duty to comply with orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36659.01 Enforcement of orders of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

DIVISION 2 — INVESTIGATIONS AND REVIEWS BY ADJUDICATOR59.1 References to commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36660 Adjudicator to investigate complaints and review decisions . . . . . . 36760.1 Disregard of request under section 5 or 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36761 Powers, duties and protections of adjudicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36762 Right to ask for a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36763 How to ask for a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36864 Notifying others of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36865 Conduct and outcome of the review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

PART 6 — GENERAL PROVISIONS66 Delegation by the head of a public body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36867 Consultative committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36968 Annual report of minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36969 Personal information directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36969.1 Public information regarding health information banks . . . . . . . . . 37169.2 Provincial identity information services provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37270 Policy manuals available without request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37371 Records available without request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37371.1 Records that ministries must disclose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37372 [Repealed 2002, c. 13, s. 14.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37473 Protection of public body from legal suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37473.1 Recovery of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37473.2 Court order for return of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37574 Offences and penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37574.1 Privacy protection offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37575 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37676 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

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76.1 Ministerial regulation making power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37877 Power to make bylaws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37978 Appropriation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37979 Relationship of Act to other Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37980 Review of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37981 Right to disclose preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

ScheduleSchedule 1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

ScheduleSchedule 2 Public Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

ScheduleSchedule 3 Governing Bodies of Professions or Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397

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HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT

PART 1 — INTERPRETATION AND PROVINCIAL STANDARDS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4132 [Repealed 1997, c. 23, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4143 Provincial standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

PART 2 — REGIONAL HEALTH BOARDS4 Regional health boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4145 Purposes of a board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4155.1 Cross-regional operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4166-7 [Repealed 2002, c. 61, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4167.1 General or special direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4167.2 Reporting requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4168 Powers and procedures of a board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4169 Resolving differences over priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41710 Financial administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41711 Staff and benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41712-13 [Repealed 1997, c. 23, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41814 Liability of members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41815 Exemption from fees and taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41815.01 Other property tax exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41815.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42015.2 Effect of amalgamation of 2 or more old boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

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15.3-15.4 [Repealed 2002, c. 61, s. 11.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42015.5 Directions from the Senior Financial Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42016 Amalgamation with a designated corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42116.1 [Repealed 2001, c. 41, s. 1.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42216.2 Gift survives on amalgamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42217 Transfer of facilities from the Provincial government . . . . . . . . . . 42218 Appointment of a public administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42319 Application of other Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

PART 3 — HEALTH SECTOR LABOUR RELATIONS19.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42319.11 Exclusion of nurse practitioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42419.2 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42419.3 Health Sector Labour Relations Regulation repealed . . . . . . . . . . 42519.4 Appropriate bargaining units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42519.5 Review of appropriate bargaining units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42519.6 Review of certifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42519.7-19.8 [Repealed 2002, c. 2, s. 24.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42619.9 Associations of bargaining agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42619.91 Existing collective agreement applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42719.911 [Repealed 2002, c. 2, s. 24.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42719.92 Seniority and service recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42719.921 Transitional — associations of trade unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42819.93 Transitional — regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

PART 4 — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS20 Offence Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42921 Power to make regulations and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

HUMAN RIGHTS CODE1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312 Discrimination and intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4323 Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4324 Code prevails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4325-6 [Repealed 2018, c. 48, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

PART 17 Discriminatory publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4338 Discrimination in accommodation, service and facility . . . . . . . . . 4339 Discrimination in purchase of property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43310 Discrimination in tenancy premises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43411 Discrimination in employment advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43412 Discrimination in wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43413 Discrimination in employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43514 Discrimination by unions and associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

PART 215–20 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

PART 321 Complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

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22 Time limit for filing a complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43722.1 Intervenors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43723-24 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 10.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43725 Deferral of a complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43726 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43727 Dismissal of a complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43827.1 Assignment of complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43827.2 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43827.3 Powers to make rules and orders respecting practice and procedure . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43927.4 [Repealed 2004, c. 45, s. 104.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43927.5 Dismissal for failure to pursue complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44027.6 Assisting parties to settle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44028-29 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44030 Enforcement of settlement agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

PART 431 Human Rights Tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44031.1 [Repealed 2003, c. 47, s. 35.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44032 Application of Administrative Tribunals Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44033 Staff of the tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44134 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 17.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44134.1 [Repealed 2004, c. 45, s. 106.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44135-36 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 17.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44137 Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44138 Modification of orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44238.1 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 20.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44339 Enforcement of remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44339.1 Annual report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443

PART 540 Disclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44341 Exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44342 Special programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44443 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44444 Style of cause for proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44445 Technical defects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44446 Delegation of powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44447 Time limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44547.01 Human Rights Commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44547.02 Resignation, suspension or removal of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . 44547.03 Acting commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44647.04 Salary, expenses and benefits of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44647.05 Oath of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44647.06 Staff of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44747.07 Delegation by commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44747.08 Advisory council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44747.09 Restrictions on disclosure by commissioner and staff . . . . . . . . . . 44747.10 Non-compellability of commissioner and staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44747.11 Personal liability protection of commissioner and staff . . . . . . . . . 44847.12 Powers of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448

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47.13 [Proposed] Provision of tribunal records to commissioner . . . . . . . 44847.14 [Proposed] Referrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44947.15 [Proposed] Commissioner’s inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44947.16 [Proposed] Commissioner’s order powers for inquiries . . . . . . . . . 44947.17 [Proposed] Expenses reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45047.18 [Proposed] Cabinet information protected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45047.19 [Proposed] Enforcement of commissioner’s orders . . . . . . . . . . . . 45047.20 [Proposed] Commissioner’s inquiry reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45047.21 [Proposed] Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45147.22 [Proposed] Offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45147.23 Annual report of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45147.24 Special reports of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45148 Offence Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45249 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45250 [Repealed 2002, c. 62, s. 26.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45250.1 [Proposed] Review of sections 47.01 to 47.24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

B.C. REG. 373/96 — HUMAN RIGHTS CODE REGULATION [REPEALED]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

BC HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL RULES OF PRACTICE ANDPROCEDURE

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HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE —FORMS

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LABOUR MOBILITY ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6152 Approved measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6163 Application of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6164 Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6175 Mobility provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6186 Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6196.1 Application of this Act to nurse practitioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6197 Agreement does not become law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6208 Prohibition on private cause of action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6209 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Accountants (Certified General) Act10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

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Accountants (Chartered) Act11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Applied Science Technologists and Technicians Act12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

Engineers and Geoscientists Act14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622

Environmental (Species and Public Protection) Statutes AmendmentAct, 2008

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Foresters Act16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623

Health Professions Act17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62318 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Industry Training Authority Act19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624

Land Surveyors Act20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Podiatrists Act21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625

Wildlife Act22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62623 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62624 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

LABOUR RELATIONS CODE

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6272 Duties under this Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6293 Continuing review of the Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

PART 2 — RIGHTS, DUTIES AND UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICES4 Rights of employers and employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6305 Prohibition against dismissals, etc., for exercising employee rights . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6306 Unfair labour practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6307 Limitation on activities of trade unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6318 Right to communicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6329 Coercion and intimidation prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63210 Internal union affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63211 Requirement to bargain in good faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63212 Duty of fair representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63213 Procedure for fair representation complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63314 Inquiry into unfair labour practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63315 Collective agreement may provide for union membership . . . . . . . 634

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16 Assignment of fees and dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63417 Religious objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

PART 3 — ACQUISITION AND TERMINATION OF BARGAINING RIGHTS

DIVISION 1 — ACQUISITION OF BARGAINING RIGHTS18 Acquisition of bargaining rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63519 Change in union representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63620 Joint application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63621 Craft unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63622 Determination of appropriate unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63623 [Repealed 2001, c. 33, s. 3.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63724 Representation vote required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63725 Outcome of representation vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63726 [Repealed 2001, c. 33, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63727 Effect of certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63728 Dependent contractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63829 Unit partly supervisory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63830 Repeated applications for certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63831 Prohibited employee associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63932 No change during certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

DIVISION 2 — REVOCATION OF BARGAINING RIGHTS33 Revocation of bargaining rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63934 Revocation of voluntarily recognized bargaining rights . . . . . . . . . 640

DIVISION 3 — SUCCESSOR RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS35 Successor rights and obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64036 Federal-Provincial successorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64137 Merger or amalgamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64138 Several businesses treated as one employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

DIVISION 4 — VOTING39 Voting requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64140 Additional voting requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

DIVISION 5 — COUNCILS OF TRADE UNIONS41 Certification of councils of trade unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64241.1 Bargaining council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64342 Dissolution of councils of trade unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643

DIVISION 6 — EMPLOYERS’ ORGANIZATIONS43 Accreditation of employers’ organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64444 Employers’ organization membership and fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

PART 4 — COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCEDURES

DIVISION 1 — GENERAL45 Notice to bargain collectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64546 Notice before expiry of agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64647 Collective bargaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64648 Parties bound by collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64649 Terms of collective agreement to be carried out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64650 Agreement for less than one year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64651 Copies of collective agreements to be filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64752 Extraprovincial companies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

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DIVISION 2 — JOINT CONSULTATION AND ADJUSTMENT PLANS53 Joint consultation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64754 Adjustment plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

DIVISION 3 — FIRST COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT55 First collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648

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55.1–55.26 [Repealed 2001, c. 33, s. 10.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649

PART 5 — STRIKES, LOCKOUTS AND PICKETING56 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65057 Strikes and lockouts prohibited during term of collective agreement

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65058 Honouring of agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65059 Strikes and lockouts prohibited before bargaining and vote . . . . . . 65060 Pre-strike vote and notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65161 Pre-lockout vote and notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65262 Continuation of benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65363 Rights preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65364 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65365 Picketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65366 Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65467 Picketing restricted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65568 Replacement workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65569 Other acts not actionable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65570 Declaratory opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65571 Refusal of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

PART 6 — ESSENTIAL SERVICES72 Essential services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65673 Return to work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

PART 7 — MEDIATION AND DISPUTES RESOLUTION

DIVISION 1 — MEDIATION AND FACT FINDING74 Mediation officer and services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65875 Notice of strike or lockout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65876 Special mediator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65877 Fact finding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65978 Last offer votes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659

DIVISION 2 — COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS79 Industrial inquiry commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66080 Industry advisory councils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

PART 8 — ARBITRATION PROCEDURES

DIVISION 1 — DEFINITIONS AND PURPOSE81 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66182 Purpose of Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

DIVISION 2 — COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ARBITRATION BUREAU83 Collective Agreement Arbitration Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

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DIVISION 3 — COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT PROVISIONS84 Dismissal or arbitration provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66285 Unworkable provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66286 Failure to appoint arbitration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66287 Settlement officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66388 Action by Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66389 Authority of arbitration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66390 Fees and costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66491 Delay by arbitration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66492 Powers of arbitration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66493 Summons to testify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66594 Decision of arbitration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66595 Effect of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66596 Filing decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66597 Act not to apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66598 Reference to Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66599 Appeal jurisdiction of Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665100 Appeal jurisdiction of Court of Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666101 Decision final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666102 Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666103 [Repealed 1997, c. 27, s. 24.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

DIVISION 4 — EXPEDITED ARBITRATION104 Expedited arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667105 Consensual mediation-arbitration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668

DIVISION 5 — SPECIAL OFFICER106 Special officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668107 Effect of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668108 Interim order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668109 Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668110 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669111 Frequency of appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669112 Form of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669113 Notice of appointment to be sent to board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669114 Other provisions to apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

PART 9 — LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD115 Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669115.1 Application of Administrative Tribunals Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670116 Divisions and officers of the Labour Relations Board . . . . . . . . . . 670117 Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670118 Quorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671119 Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671120 Question of law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671121 Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671122 Employees of the board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671123 [Repealed 2004, c. 45, s. 110.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672124 Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672125 Summons and discovery of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672126 Practice and procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672127 Offices of the board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

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128 Timing and publication of decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672129 Oath of office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673130-131 [Repealed 2003, c. 47, s. 38.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673132 General guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673133 Hearing of complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673134 Conditions and undertakings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674135 Filing order in Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674136 Jurisdiction of board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674137 Jurisdiction of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675138 Finality of decisions and orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675139 Jurisdiction of board to decide certain questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675140 General powers of board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676141 Reconsideration of decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677142 Variation and continuation of certification or accreditation . . . . . . 677143 Declaratory opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678

PART 10 — MISCELLANEOUS144 Powers of minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678145 Power to enter and inspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678145.1 Power to compel persons to answer questions and order disclosure . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678145.2 Maintenance of order at hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678145.3 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679145.4 Immunity protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679146 Information confidential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679147 Payment of members of tribunals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680148 Execution of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680149 Board may require returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680150 Trusteeship over local unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681151 Financial statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681152 Mailed notice presumed received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681153 Service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681154 Legal entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682155 Evidentiary effect of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682156 Technicalities not to invalidate proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682157 Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682158 Penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682158.1 Offence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682159 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682159.1 Minister’s power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

PART 11 — TRANSITIONAL PROVISION160 Transitional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

B.C. REG. 395/2003 — LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD FEESREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 49/2012 — PRESCRIBED TIME PERIODS FOR DECISIONSREGULATION

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BRITISH COLUMBIA LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD RULES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

LABOUR RELATIONS BOARD — FORMSForm 5 Unfair Labour Practice Complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711Form 10 Internal Union Affairs Complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716Form 17 Application for Religious Exemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725Form 18 Application for Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729Form 33 Employee Application for Revocation of Bargaining Rights . . . . . 741Form 35 Application for Employer Successorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746Form 37 Application for Trade Union Successorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 753Form 38 Application for Common Employer Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757Form 43 Application for Accreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764Form 72 Application for the Designation of Essential Services . . . . . . . . . . 767Form 74 Application for a Mediator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771Form 78 Application for the Board to Conduct a Last Offer Vote . . . . . . . 774Form 125 Summons Before the British Columbia Labour Relations Board . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778Form 142 Employee Application for Partial Decertification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779Form 142 (Admin) Application to Vary a Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788Form 142 (EBU) Application for an Expanded Bargaining Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793Form 150 Statement of Trusteeship Over Local Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798Schedule 2 Return of Poll (Strike or Lockout Vote) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807

PENSION BENEFITS STANDARDS ACT

PART 1 — INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION1 Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8092 Application to public sector pension plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8173 Application to plans for connected persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817

PART 2 — SUPERINTENDENT OF PENSIONS4 Appointment and duties of Superintendent of Pensions . . . . . . . . . 8185 Superintendent’s authority to extend time limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8186 Terms and conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8187 Personal liability protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818

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PART 3 — PENSION PLAN REQUIREMENTS8 General requirements of plan text documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8199 Plan text documents to reflect Act provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81910 Provisions relating to gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82011 Fiscal year of plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821

PART 4 — REGISTRATION AND AMENDMENT OF PENSION PLANS

DIVISION 1 — REGISTRATION OF PENSION PLANS12 Restrictions on administration of plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82113 Restrictions on administration of plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82114 Superintendent must register plan in appropriate circumstances . . . 82215 If application refused or withdrawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82216 Superintendent may cancel plan registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 822

DIVISION 2 — AMENDMENT OF PLAN TEXT DOCUMENTS17 Restrictions on administration of plan if plan text document amended

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82218 Filings required for registration of amendment to plan text documents

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82219 Restrictions on administration of plan if amendments severed . . . . 82320 Restrictions on amendments to reduce benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82321 Amendment to temporarily improve benefits under target benefit

provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82322 Superintendent must register amendment to plan text document in

appropriate circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82423 Revocation of registration of amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82424 Transactions may be reversed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824

DIVISION 3 — AMENDMENT OF SUPPORTING PLAN DOCUMENTS25 Restrictions on administration of plan if supporting plan document

amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82526 Amendment to supporting plan documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

DIVISION 4 — REGISTRATION OF PLAN OR AMENDMENT27 Effective date of plan or amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82528 Designation of plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825

PART 5 — MEMBERSHIP IN PENSION PLANS29 Entitlement of employees to join plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82530 Dispute as to member of class of employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82631 Suspension of membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82632 Vesting of pension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

PART 6 — ADMINISTRATION OF PENSION PLANS

DIVISION 1 — PLAN REQUIREMENTS33 Plan requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82734 Retention of records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

DIVISION 2 — ADMINISTRATOR35 Responsibilities of administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82736 Administrator must enter into participation agreement . . . . . . . . . 82837 Administrator must disclose information and records . . . . . . . . . . 82938 Administrator must file reports and returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83039 Administrator must disclose insolvency proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . 831

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40 Repayment of contributions or transfer of benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . 83141 Review of plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831

DIVISION 3 — ADMINISTRATOR MUST ENSURE POLICIES ESTABLISHED42 Administrator must ensure governance policy established . . . . . . . 83143 Administrator must ensure statement of investment policies and

procedures established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83244 Administrator must ensure funding policy established . . . . . . . . . . 832

DIVISION 4 — PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS45 Funding responsibilities of participating employer . . . . . . . . . . . . 83246 Participating employer must provide information and records to

administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83247 Trust agreement applies to all participating employers . . . . . . . . . 83348 Participating employer must enter into participation agreement . . . 83349 Compelling compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

DIVISION 5 — FUNDHOLDERS50 Who may act as fundholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83351 Responsibilities of fundholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834

PART 7 — FUNDING, CONTRIBUTIONS AND ASSETS

DIVISION 1 — FUNDING OF A PLAN52 Funding requirements for benefit formula provisions . . . . . . . . . . 83453 Funding requirements for defined contribution provisions . . . . . . . 83454 Solvency reserve account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83555 Letters of credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835

DIVISION 2 — CONTRIBUTIONS TO A PLAN56 Remitting of contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83557 Maximum employee contributions for funding pension under benefit

formula provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83658 Deemed trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83759 Refund of contributions to avoid revocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838

DIVISION 3 — INVESTING PLAN ASSETS60 Investment requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83861 Interest, gains and losses on contributions and benefits . . . . . . . . . 839

DIVISION 4 — USE OF ACCTUARIAL EXCESS AND SURPLUS62 Transfer of actuarial excess or surplus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83963 Use of actuarial excess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840

PART 8 — BENEFITS AND TRANSFERS

DIVISION 1 — PENSION ELIGIBILITY DATE64 Age requirements of plan text document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84065 Pension may start before pension eligibility date . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84166 If employment continues after pension eligibility date . . . . . . . . . 841

DIVISION 2 — RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO BENEFITS67 Evidence of entitlement to benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84168 Locking in commuted value of benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84169 Exceptions to locking in commuted value of benefits . . . . . . . . . . 84270 No disposition or attachment of benefits and money . . . . . . . . . . 84371 Income and asset testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84472 Restrictions on transfer of assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 845

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DIVISION 3 — BENEFITS MAY BE AFFECTED73 Maximum years and amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84574 Adjustments in pension for CPP Act, QPP Act and OAS Act . . . . 84575 Flexibility for life income type benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84676 Lump-sum payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84677 Division of benefits under orders or agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846

DIVISION 4 — DEATH BENEFITS78 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84679 Survivor’s benefits if member dies before pension commencement . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84680 Survivor’s benefits if retired member dies after pension commencement

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84881 Spouse’s change in status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

DIVISION 5 — ANCILLARY AND PHASED RETIREMENT BENEFITS82 Ancillary benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84983 Phased retirement benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849

DIVISION 6 — ADDITIONAL VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS AND OPTIONAL ANCILLARYCONTRIBUTIONS

84 Payment out of additional voluntary contributions and optional ancillarycontributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850

DIVISION 7 — TRANSFER OF COMMUTED VALUE BY MEMBERS85 When transfer may be made under this Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85086 What may be transferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85187 Transfer may be restricted or postponed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85188 How transfer may be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85289 When plan can require transfer to be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852

DIVISION 8 — TRANSFER OF ASSETS BY ADMINISTRATOR FOR PURCHASE OFANNUITY

89.1 Annuity purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853

PART 9 — CHANGES IN PLAN BENEFIT TYPE OR PLAN STRUCTURE90 Prescribed rules apply to predecessor and successor plans . . . . . . . 85391 Rights of members on transfer of membership to another plan . . . 85492 Prescribed rules apply when benefits converted from one type to another

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85493 Participating employer’s withdrawal from a collectively bargained multi-

employer plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85494 Participating employer’s withdrawal from a non-collectively bargained

multi-employer plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85495 Continuation of pension plan despite cessation of benefit accrual . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854

PART 10 — TERMINATION AND WINDING-UP OF PLAN

DIVISION 1 — DEFINITION96 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 855

DIVISION 2 — TERMINATING PENSION PLANS97 Voluntary termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85598 Termination by direction of superintendent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856

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DIVISION 3 — AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE OF TERMINATION99 Benefits cease to accrue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856100 Required amounts must be remitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856101 Solvency deficiency must be eliminated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856102 Termination report required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857103 Limitations on payments of pension or benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857

DIVISION 4 — WINDING-UP104 When plan must be wound up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857105 Transfer rights on winding-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858106 Allocation and distribution of assets if insufficient to satisfy benefits

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858107 Surplus on winding-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858

DIVISION 5 — APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR108 Superintendent’s authority to appoint administrator on plan termination

or winding-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858109 Expense of termination and winding-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859

PART 11 — MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT110 Inspection and production of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859111 Superintendent may request documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860112 Superintendent may apply for order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860113 Directions for compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861114 Superintendent’s authority to appoint administrator . . . . . . . . . . . 861115 Designation of actuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862116 Administrative penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863117 Enforcement of administrative penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865118 Expenses of inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865119 Remedies preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866120 Limitation on proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866121 Failure to pay administrative penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866122 Remedies preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866123 Offences and penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866124 Limitation period for prosecution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867

PART 12 — RECONSIDERATIONS AND APPEALS125 Superintendent must provide notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867126 Notice of objection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867127 Appeal to tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868

PART 13 — RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER CANADIAN JURISDICTIONS128 Reciprocal powers and agreements with other governments . . . . . 868129 Agreements respecting multi-jurisdictional plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869130 Transitional regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871

PART 14 — MISCELLANEOUS131 Service of documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 872132 Proof of date of service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873133 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873134 Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875Consequential amendments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876

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B.C. REG. 71/2015 — PENSION BENEFITS STANDARDS REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887

PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10572 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10583 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1059

PART 2 — GENERAL RULES RESPECTING PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATIONBY ORGANIZATIONS

4 Compliance with Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10605 Policies and practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060

PART 3 — CONSENT6 Consent required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10607 Provision of consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10618 Implicit consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10619 Withdrawal of consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062

PART 4 — COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION10 Required notification for collection of personal information . . . . 106211 Limitations on collection of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . 106212 Collection of personal information without consent . . . . . . . . . . 106213 Collection of employee personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064

PART 5 — USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION14 Limitations on use of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106415 Use of personal information without consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106416 Use of employee personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065

PART 6 — DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION17 Limitations on disclosure of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . 106618 Disclosure of personal information without consent . . . . . . . . . . 106619 Disclosure of employee personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106720 Transfer of personal information in the sale of an organization or its

business assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106821 Disclosure for research or statistical purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106922 Disclosure for archival or historical purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069

PART 7 — ACCESS TO AND CORRECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION23 Access to personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107024 Right to request correction of personal information . . . . . . . . . . 1071

PART 8 — ADMINISTRATION25 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107126 Circumstances in which request may be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107127 How to make a request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107128 Duty to assist individual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107129 Time limit for response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107230 Content of response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072

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31 Extending the time limit for response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107232 Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073

PART 9 — CARE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION33 Accuracy of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107334 Protection of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107335 Retention of personal information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073

PART 10 — ROLE OF COMMISSIONER36 General powers of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107337 Power to authorize organization to disregard requests . . . . . . . . . 107438 Powers of commissioner in conducting investigations, audits or inquiries

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107538.1 Maintenance of order at hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107638.2 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative person . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107639 Evidence in proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107640 Protection against libel or slander actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107741 Restrictions on disclosure of information by commissioner and staff

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107742 Protection of commissioner and staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107743 Delegation by commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107744 Annual report of commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078

PART 11 — REVIEWS AND ORDERS45 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107846 Asking for a review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107847 How to ask for a review or make a complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107848 Notifying others of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107849 Mediation may be authorized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107950 Inquiry by commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107951 Burden of proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107952 Commissioner’s orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108053 Duty to comply with orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1081

PART 12 — GENERAL PROVISIONS54 Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108155 Non-retaliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108156 Offences and penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108157 Damages for breach of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108258 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108259 Review of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108360 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1083

B.C. REG. 473/2003 — PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACTREGULATIONS

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PUBLIC EDUCATION COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087

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2 Constitution of collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10873 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1087

PUBLIC EDUCATION LABOUR RELATIONS ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10892 Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10893 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

PART 2 — BARGAINING STRUCTURE4 Employer bargaining agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10905 Bargaining unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10906 Employee bargaining agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090

PART 3 — COLLECTIVE BARGAINING7 Content of collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10908 Agreements on local matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

PART 4 — REGULATIONS9 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1091

PART 5 — TRANSITIONAL10 Transitional — collective agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109211 Transitional — accreditations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109212 Transitional — regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093Schedule 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093Schedule 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1093

PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYERS ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10952 Purposes of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

PART 2 — PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYERS’ COUNCIL3 Public Sector Employers’ Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10954 Functions of the council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10974.1 Council access to employment information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10974.2 [Repealed 2002, c. 64, s. 2.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10975 Employees of the council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097

PART 3 — PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATIONS

DIVISION 1 — FORMATION OF EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATIONS6 Public Sector Employers’ Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10977 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10988 [Repealed 2002, c. 48, s. 62.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10998.1 Minister may require that bylaws and constitution be revised . . . 10999 Application of the Society Act to employers’ associations . . . . . . 10999.1 Appointment of public administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1100

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DIVISION 2 — COLLECTIVE BARGAINING10 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110011 Accreditation for collective bargaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110012 Direction by minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110113 Collective bargaining by part of employers’ association . . . . . . . 110114 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102

PART 3.1 — EXEMPT EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION

DIVISION 1 — DEFINITIONS14.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1102

DIVISION 2 — EMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION STANDARDS14.2 Vacation leave and sick leave standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110214.3 Other compensation standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1103

DIVISION 3 — EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION STANDARDS14.4 Employment termination standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1105

DIVISION 4 — COMPENSATION INFORMATION14.5 Definition and application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110614.6 Compensation information to be specified and provided . . . . . . . 110614.7 Filing of contracts of employment and compensation information . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110614.8 Contracts of employment are public documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107

DIVISION 5 — TRIBUNAL EXCLUSIONS14.9 Members of tribunals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107

PART 4 — GENERAL15 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110815.1 Compliance with Part 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110816 Transitional — regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109Schedule Designated Tribunals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1109

B.C. REG. 177/2007 — CROWN AGENCY EMPLOYERS EXEMPTIONREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 379/97 — EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION STANDARDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1112

B.C. REG. 427/94 — HEALTH CARE EMPLOYERS REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116

B.C. REG. 319/2002 — SENIOR EMPLOYEE BASE SALARYREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 84/2003 — SOCIAL SERVICES EMPLOYERS REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT

PART 1 — INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11312 Purposes of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11313 Application of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11324 Consultation process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1132

PART 2 — AGENCY HEAD AND MERIT COMMISSIONER5 Public Service Employee Relations Commission continued . . . . . 11325.01 Appointment of merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11335.1 Merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11345.11 Merit commissioner — dismissal process review . . . . . . . . . . . . 11345.12 Dismissals eligible for review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11355.13 Information for merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11355.14 Scope of reviews by merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11355.2 Annual report of merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11365.3 Expenses of merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11376 Delegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11377 Access to facilities and records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

PART 3 — APPOINTMENTS TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE8 Appointments on merit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11379 Probation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113810 Exceptions to section 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113811 [Repealed 2003, c. 88, s. 10.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113812 Deputy ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113813 Deputy ministers’ pensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113914 Declaration of deputy minister status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113915 Appointment by Lieutenant Governor in Council . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139

PART 4 — REVIEW OF STAFFING DECISIONS16 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113917 Request for feedback on staffing decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113918 Inquiry into staffing decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114019 Review by merit commissioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114020 Power to compel persons to answer questions and order disclosure . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114120.01 Contempt proceeding for uncooperative person . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114120.02 Immunity protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114120.1 Decision final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1141

PART 5 — MISCELLANEOUS21 Oaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114122 Dismissal and suspension of employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114122.1 Immunity protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114222.2 Inadmissibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114222.3 Merit commissioner not to be compelled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142

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23 [Repealed 2007, c. 21, s. 6.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114224 Annual report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114225 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114225.1 Review of dismissal review process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114326 Transitional — deputy ministers’ pensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1143

B.C. REG. 279/98 — DEFINITION REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1144

B.C. REG. 401/98 — EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145

B.C. REG. 154/78 — HOURS OF SERVICE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1146

B.C. REG. 72/2012 — EXCLUDED EMPLOYEES INDEMNITYPROTECTION REGULATION

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B.C. REG. 66/2014 — POLITICAL STAFF OATH REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148

B.C. REG. 132/77 — RESIGNATION REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149

B.C. REG. 443/2003 — REVIEW OF STAFFING DECISIONSREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 152/2017 — SALARY RANGE REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1151

B.C. REG. 67/2014 — STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR POLITICALSTAFF REGULATION

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B.C. REG. 6/2009 — VACATION ENTITLEMENT FOR RE-EMPLOYEDAPPOINTEES REGULATION

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PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONS ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11632 Effect of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11663 Bargaining agent for government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11674 Bargaining units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11675 Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11676 Unfair labour practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11687 Change of certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11688 Collective bargaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11689 Renewal or revision of collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116810 Form of collective agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116911 Exclusions from collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116912 Content of collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116913 Union security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117014 Settlement of disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117015 Notice of technological change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117216 No notice of future technological change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117217 No notice of current technological change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117318 Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117319 Power to make regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117320 Offence and penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117321 Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117322 Copies to be filed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117423 Other Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174

B.C. REG. 22/74 — PUBLIC SERVICE LABOUR RELATIONSREGULATIONS

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TEACHERS’ COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11772 Constitution of teachers’ collective agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11773 Application of Labour Relations Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11774 Repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11775 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177

WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179

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PART 1 — COMPENSATION TO WORKERS AND DEPENDANTS

DIVISION 1 — SCOPE OF THIS PART2 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11823 Extending application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11834 Fishing industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1184

DIVISION 2 — COMPENSATION5 Compensation for personal injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11855.1 Mental disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11856 Occupational disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11866.1 Firefighters’ occupational disease presumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11886.2 Emergency Intervention Disclosure Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11897 Loss of hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11908 Injuries happening out of Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11908.1 Interjurisdictional agreements and arrangements by the Board . . . 11919 Election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119110 Limitation of actions, election and subrogation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119111 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 2.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119312 Worker who is minor is sui juris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119313 Compensation cannot be waived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119314 No contribution from workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119315 Compensation not assignable or liable to attachment . . . . . . . . . 119416 Vocational rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1194

DIVISION 3 — SCALE OF COMPENSATION17 Compensation in fatal cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119418 Addition to payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119919 Surviving spouse of a deceased worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119919.1 Period for making payments under sections 17 to 19 . . . . . . . . . 120020 Proof of existence of dependants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120021 Health care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120022 Permanent total disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120123 Permanent partial disability or disfigurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120223.1 Period of payment for total or partial disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120323.2 Retirement benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120323.3 Payment of retirement benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120323.4 Handling of money to be paid as retirement benefit . . . . . . . . . . 120423.5 Retirement services and supports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120424 Reconsidering benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120425 General indexing factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120525.1 [Repealed 2003, c. 65, s. 19.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120625.2 Variation of dollar amounts for other than fatalities . . . . . . . . . . 120625.3 [Repealed 2003, c. 65, s. 21.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120626 Transitional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120627 Transitional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120728 Publish in Gazette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120729 Temporary total disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120730 Temporary partial disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120731 Maximum compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120831.1 Termination of periodic payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120832 Recurrence of disability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1208

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33 Average earnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120833.1 General rule for determination of average earnings . . . . . . . . . . 121033.2 Exception to section 33.1(2) — apprentice or learner . . . . . . . . . 121033.3 Exception to section 33.1(2) — employed less than 12 months . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121033.4 Exception to section 33.1(2) — exceptional circumstances . . . . . 121133.5 Exception to section 33.1 — casual worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121133.6 Exception to section 33.1 — person with coverage under section 2(2)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121133.7 Exception to section 33.1 — person without earnings . . . . . . . . . 121133.8 Determination of average net earnings — initial period of injury . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121133.9 Determination of average net earnings — long term injury . . . . . 121233.91 Schedule or procedure for determining average net earnings . . . . 121234 Deduction from compensation in certain cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121335 Manner of payment of compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121335.1 Transitional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121435.2 Transitional — death of worker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215

DIVISION 4 — ACCIDENT FUND AND ASSESSMENTS36 Accident fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121537 Classification of industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121538 Employer to furnish estimate of payrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121639 Assessment for accident fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121740 Assessment by notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121841 [Repealed 1993-34-7.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121942 Classification of rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121943 Power to vary rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121944 Temporary industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121945 Collection of assessments by suit or summarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121946 Power to restrain industry if employer defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122047 Penalty for default in payment or return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122148 Class accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122149 Adjustment of assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122150 Collection from contractors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122251 Contractor liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122252 Priority as to amounts due Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1222

DIVISION 5 — PROCEDURE AND MISCELLANEOUS53 Worker’s notification of injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122454 Employer’s notification of injury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122455 Application for compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122556 Duty of physician or practitioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122657 Worker to submit to examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122757.1 Obligation to provide information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122758 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122759–66 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 6.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122867 Accounting and investment of excess funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122868 Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122869 Annual report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122970–72 [Repealed 1998, c. 50, s. 5.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122973 Levy from employer to cover amount of compensation . . . . . . . 1229

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74 [Repealed 1998, c. 50, s. 7.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122975 Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122976 Effective date of regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123077 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123078 Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230

DIVISION 6 — WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD79 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 8.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123080 Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123081 Board of directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123082 Powers and duties of board of directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123282.1 Service plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123283 Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123383.1 [Repealed 2002, c. 56, s. 29.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123384 Standard of care of the directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123384.1 President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123385–85.2 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 12.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123486 Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123487 Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123588 Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123589–91 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 16.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123592-93 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 16.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123794 Workers’ advisers and employers’ advisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123794.1 Lay advocates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123895 Secrecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123996 Jurisdiction of Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123996.1 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 20.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124196.2 Request for reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124196.3 Who may request review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124296.4 Conduct of review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124396.5 Reconsideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124496.6 Delegation of chief review officer’s powers and duties . . . . . . . . 124497 Statutory powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124498 Discontinuance or suspension of payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124499 Board decision-making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245100 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245101 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 23.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245

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102 Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245103 Liability of employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245104 Common law rules abrogated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246105 Contributory negligence to be considered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246

PART 3 — OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

DIVISION 1 — INTERPRETATION AND PURPOSES106 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1246107 Purposes of Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248108 Application of Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249109 Review of Part and regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249110 Relationship with Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249

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DIVISION 2 — BOARD MANDATE111 Board’s mandate under this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1249112 Annual report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250113 Board jurisdiction under this Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251114 Cooperation agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251

DIVISION 3 — GENERAL DUTIES OF EMPLOYERS, WORKERS AND OTHERS115 General duties of employers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252116 General duties of workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1252117 General duties of supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253118 Coordination at multiple-employer workplaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1253119 General duties of owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254120 General duties of suppliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254121 Duties of directors and officers of a corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1254122 General obligations are not limited by specific obligations . . . . . 1255123 Persons may be subject to obligations in relation to more than one role

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255124 Responsibility when obligations apply to more than one person . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255

DIVISION 4 — JOINT COMMITTEES AND WORKER REPRESENTATIVES125 When a joint committee is required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255126 Variations in committee requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1255127 Membership of joint committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256128 Selection of worker representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256129 Selection of employer representatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1256130 Duties and functions of joint committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257131 Joint committee procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257132 Assistance in resolving disagreements within committee . . . . . . . 1257133 Employer must respond to committee recommendations . . . . . . . 1257134 Time from work for meetings and other committee functions . . . 1258135 Educational leave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1258136 Other employer obligations to support committee . . . . . . . . . . . 1258137 Committee reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259138 Employer must post committee information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259139 Worker health and safety representative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1259140 Participation of worker representative in inspections . . . . . . . . . 1260

DIVISION 5 — [PROPOSED] RIGHT TO REFUSE UNSAFE WORK141 [Proposed] Worker may refuse unsafe work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260142 [Proposed] Worker must immediately report a refusal . . . . . . . . 1260143 [Proposed] Supervisor or employer must respond to report . . . . . 1260144 [Proposed] If worker continues to refuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1261145 [Proposed] Investigation and determination by officer . . . . . . . . 1261146 [Proposed] Employer may reassign worker to other work . . . . . . 1261147 [Proposed] Effect of refusal on workers exercising right and assisting in

investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262148 [Proposed] Effect of refusal on work of other workers . . . . . . . . 1262149 [Proposed] Requirements before another worker is assigned to do refused

work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262

DIVISION 6 — PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATORY ACTION150 Actions that are considered discriminatory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1262

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151 Discrimination against workers prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263152 Complaint by worker against discriminatory action or failure to pay

wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263153 Response to complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264

DIVISION 7 — INFORMATION AND CONFIDENTIALITY154 Posting of information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1264155 Occupational health and safety information summary . . . . . . . . . 1264156 Information that must be kept confidential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1265157 Information that must be provided in a medical emergency . . . . . 1266

DIVISION 8 — MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORITY158 Regulations in relation to hazardous and other substances . . . . . . 1266159 Certification and training of first aid attendants and instructors . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1267160 Installation and maintenance of required first aid equipment . . . . 1268161 Medical monitoring programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268162 Medical certification requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1268163 Certification and training of blasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269

DIVISION 9 — VARIANCE ORDERS164 Board may authorize variances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269165 Effective period for variance order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269166 Application for variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269167 Notice of application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270168 Consultation on application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270169 Decision on application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1270170 Legal effect of variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271171 Regulations review must consider variance history . . . . . . . . . . . 1271

DIVISION 10 — ACCIDENT REPORTING AND INVESTIGATION172 Immediate notice of certain accidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271173 Incidents that must be investigated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1271174 Investigation process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1272175 Preliminary investigation, report and follow-up action . . . . . . . . 1272176 Full investigation, report and follow-up action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1273177 Employer or supervisor must not attempt to prevent reporting . . . 1273

DIVISION 11 — INSPECTIONS, INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES178 Application of Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274179 Authority to conduct inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1274180 Officer must produce credentials on request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275181 Restrictions on access to private residences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275182 Representation on inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1275183 Employer must post inspection reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276184 Person being questioned is entitled to have another person present . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1276185 Limited authority to seize evidence without warrant . . . . . . . . . . 1276186 Assistance on inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277

DIVISION 12 — ENFORCEMENT186.1 Compliance agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277187 General authority to make orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279188 Contents and process for orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279189 Notice of cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1279

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190 Orders to stop using or supplying unsafe equipment, etc. . . . . . . 1280191 Orders to stop work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1280192 Effect of orders on workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281193 Posting of orders by officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282194 Compliance reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282195 Suspension or cancellation of certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1282196 Administrative penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1283196.1 Administrative penalties — lower maximum amount . . . . . . . . . 1284197 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 29.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284198 Court injunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284

DIVISION 13199–206 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 30.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285

DIVISION 14207–212 [Repealed 2002, c. 66, s. 30.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286

DIVISION 15 — OFFENCES213 Offence to contravene Part, regulation or order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1286214 Limits on prosecutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287215 Defence of due diligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287216 Additional defence for workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287217 General penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287218 Additional penalty to reclaim monetary benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287219 Additional powers on sentencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288220 Penalties to be paid into accident fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288

DIVISION 16 — GENERAL221 Service of orders and other documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1288222 Court orders for access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289223 Collection by assessment or judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1289

DIVISION 17 — REGULATIONS224 Cabinet regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290225 Board regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290226 Notice and consultation before Board makes regulation . . . . . . . 1291227 When Board regulation comes into force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292228 Ongoing review of Board regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292229 Minister may direct Board to consider amendment . . . . . . . . . . . 1292230 Authority and application of regulations generally . . . . . . . . . . . 1292

PART 4 — APPEALS

DIVISION 1 — APPEAL TRIBUNAL231 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293232 Appeal tribunal established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293233 End of appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294234 Role of chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294235 Appeal tribunal staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296236 Compensation and expenses of members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296237 Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296238 Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1297

DIVISION 2 — APPEAL RIGHTS239 Appeal of review decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298240 Appeal of other Board decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298

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241 Who may appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298242 How to appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1298243 Time limit for appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299244 No stay of appealed decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300244.1 Appeal rights to workers for decisions pre-dating 2004 amendments

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DIVISION 3 — APPEAL PROCEDURE245 Board records and policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301245.1 Application of Administrative Tribunals Act to appeal tribunal . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1301246 Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302246.1 Evidence admissible in appeal tribunal proceedings . . . . . . . . . . 1303247 Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303248 Deemed employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1304249 Health professional assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1304250 Appeal tribunal decision-making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305251 Application of policies of board of directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1306252 Suspension of appeal proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307253 Decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1307253.1 Amendment to final decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308

DIVISION 4 — GENERAL254 Exclusive jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308255 Appeal tribunal decision or action final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308256 Reconsideration of appeal decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309257 Certification to court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1309258 Payment of compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310259 Payment of interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310260 Confidentiality obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1310Schedule A [Repealed 1993, c. 34, s. 13.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311Schedule B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311Schedule C [Repealed 2003, c. 65, s. 27.] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317Schedule D Non–Traumatic Hearing Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317

B.C. REG. 31/81 — BOARDS OF REVIEW REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1321

B.C. REG. 125/2009 — FIREFIGHTERS’ OCCUPATIONAL DISEASEREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 674/76 — FISHING INDUSTRY REGULATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329

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B.C. REG. 194/2015 — LOWER MAXIMUM ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIESREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 136/2018 — MENTAL DISORDER PRESUMPTIONREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 71/99 — OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE RECOGNITIONREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 296/97 — OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETYREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 713/74 — REPORTS OF INJURIES REGULATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1865

B.C. REG. 164/2015 — TIME PERIOD FOR REVIEW REGULATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1866

B.C. REG. 322/2002 — TRANSITIONAL REVIEW AND APPEALREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 321/2002 — WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT APPEALREGULATION

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B.C. REG. 32/86 — WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT (REVIEWBOARD) REGULATION

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B.C. REG. 359/2002 — WORKERS COMPENSATION APPEAL TRIBUNALCOMPENSATION REGULATION

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INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877

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