Definitions

1   In this regulation:

"Act" means the Police Act;

"chair" means a member elected by a municipal police board as chair or acting as chair of a municipal police board in accordance with section 25 [election of chair and vice chair of municipal police board] of the Act;

"vice chair" means a member elected by a municipal police board as vice chair in accordance with section 25 of the Act.

Application

2   This regulation applies to

(a) a member of a municipal police board, and

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

Discipline — LGiC appointees

3   (1) This section applies to a member of a municipal police board appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) If the director considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under section 68.2 (1) [duty of board members to complete training] of the Act, the director may do one or both of the following:

(a) provide a verbal warning to the member;

(b) provide a written warning to the member.

(3) If, on the recommendation of the director and the minister, the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under section 68.2 (1) of the Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may do one or more of the following:

(a) impose one or more of the following terms and conditions respecting the member's membership:

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

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

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

(b) suspend the member's membership for a specified period of time or until specified terms and conditions are met;

(c) rescind the member's appointment.

(4) A member must comply with the terms and conditions imposed, under subsection (3) (a), on the member's membership.

Discipline — other appointees

4   (1) This section applies to a member of a municipal police board not appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) If the director considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under section 68.2 (1) [duty of board members to complete training] of the Act, the director may do one or both of the following:

(a) provide a verbal warning to the member;

(b) provide a written warning to the member.

(3) If, on the recommendation of the director, the minister considers that a member failed to complete training approved by the director under section 68.2 (1) of the Act, the minister may do one or more of the following:

(a) impose one or more of the following terms and conditions respecting the member's membership:

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

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

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

(b) suspend the member's membership for a specified period of time or until specified terms and conditions are met;

(c) remove the member.

(4) A member must comply with the terms and conditions imposed, under subsection (3) (a), on the member's membership on a municipal police board.

Reappointment of disciplined members

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

(a) the person's appointment to a municipal police board was rescinded in accordance with section 3, or

(b) the person was removed from a municipal police board in accordance with section 4.

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

Prohibited conduct while suspended

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

(a) attend meetings of the board;

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

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