Designation of government bodies and heads of government bodies

1   For the purposes of the definitions of "government body" and "head" in section 1 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act,

(a) an organization listed in Column 1 of the Schedule is designated a government body, and

(b) a person listed in Column 2 of the Schedule is designated the head of the government body listed opposite in Column 1.

Prescribed classes of employees

2   (1) In this section:

"health facility" means a health facility that is usually operated by a specified body;

"registrant" means a registrant as defined in section 1 of the Health Professions Act;

"specified body" means any of the following:

(a) a regional health authority designated under the Health Authorities Act;

(b) the British Columbia Emergency Health Services, a corporation continued under the Emergency Health Services Act;

(c) the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, a corporation continued under the Forensic Psychiatry Act;

(d) the Providence Health Care Society, a society as defined in section 1 of the Societies Act;

(e) the Provincial Health Services Authority, a society as defined in section 1 of the Societies Act.

(2) For the purposes of the definition of "employee" in section 1 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act, the following classes of persons are prescribed:

(a) members of government bodies designated in the Schedule to this regulation who exercise an adjudicative function of a tribunal;

(b) registrants

(i) when they are receiving training or providing services at a health facility, or

(ii) when they are receiving training or providing services through a website, online service or similar electronic application on behalf of a health facility.

[en. B.C. Reg. 131/2023, Sch. 2, s. 1.]

School board trustees

3   For certainty, director within the meaning of the Public Interest Disclosure Act does not include a trustee of a board of education established under Part 4 of the School Act.

[en. B.C. Reg. 245/2023, s. 1.]