58_2022 — Government Body Designation (Public Interest Disclosure) Regulation

s. 1 — Designation of government bodies and heads of government bodies

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

s. 1(a)

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

s. 1(b)

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

s. 2 — Prescribed classes of employees

s. 2(1)

In this section:

s. 2(1) — health facility

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

s. 2(1) — licensee

licensee has the same meaning as in the Health Professions and Occupations Act;

s. 2(1) — specified body

specified body means any of the following:

s. 2(1)(a)

a regional health board designated under the Health Authorities Act;

s. 2(1)(b)

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

s. 2(1)(c)

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

s. 2(1)(d)

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

s. 2(1)(e)

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

s. 2(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:

s. 2(2)(a)

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

s. 2(2)(b)

licensees

s. 2(2)(b)(i)

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

s. 2(2)(b)(ii)

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

s. 3 — School board trustees

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.

Schedule

Schedule [am. B.C. Regs. 243/2022; 253/2022, s. 6; 131/2023, Sch. 1 and Sch. 2, s. 2; 187/2023, Sch., s. 4; 245/2023, s. 2 (b); 112/2024; 273/2024; 51/2026, App. 2.]