Whereas the letters patent governing each of the 28 regional districts within the Province contain or make provision for tax formulas based on assessed values for other than general municipal purposes in respect of functions and for specified areas permitted under or by virtue of the Local Government Act ("Act") and letters patent; And whereas continuation of the formulas imposed under or by virtue of all of these letters patent and the Act according to their true intent has been affected by amendments to legislation recently enacted;
In order to continue the tax formulas according their original intent, the tax rate limits for all regional districts are amended in the manner set out in the schedule.
Schedule [am. B.C. Reg. 143/85.] 1 In this Schedule, (a) each Part applies only to the regional district named in the heading of the Part, and (b) the existing tax rate limits, expressed in terms of mills, set out in Column 2 of each Part for the function or specified area appearing opposite it in Column 1 are deleted, and the tax rate limits set out in Column 3, expressed in terms of dollars per thousand dollars, are substituted. Part 1 — Regional District of Alberni Clayoquot Part 2 — Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Part 3 — Capital Regional District Part 4 — Cariboo Regional District Part 5 — Central Coast Regional District Part 6 — Central Fraser Valley Regional District Part 7 — Regional District of Central Kootenay Part 8 — Regional District of Central Okanagan Part 9 — Regional District of Columbia-Shuswap Part 10 — Regional District of Comox-Strathcona Part 11 — Cowichan Valley Regional District Part 12 — Dewdney-Alouette Regional District Part 13 — Regional District of East Kootenay Part 14 — Regional District of Fraser-Cheam Part 15 — Regional District of Fraser-Fort George Part 16 — Greater Vancouver Regional District Part 17 — Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Part 18 — Regional District of Kootenay-Boundary Part 19 — Regional District of Mount Waddington Part 20 — Regional District of Nanaimo Part 21 — Regional District of North Okanagan Part 22 — Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen Part 23 — Peace River-Liard Regional District Part 24 — Powell River Regional District Part 25 — Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District Part 26 — Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Part 27 — Sunshine Coast Regional District Part 28 — Thompson-Nicola Regional District