Powers and duties of members of the Conservation Officer Service

1   (1) For the purposes of section 107 (1) (a) (ii) of the Environmental Management Act, a member of the Conservation Officer Service may exercise the powers and perform the duties of the official listed in Column 1 of the Table under the enactment listed opposite in Column 2 of the Table.

(2) For the purposes of section 107 (1) (b) of the Environmental Management Act, the following enactments are prescribed as enactments that a member of the Conservation Officer Service may enforce:

(a) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 34/2012, s. (a).]

(a.1) Dike Maintenance Act;

(a.2) Ecological Reserve Act;

(a.3) Environmental Management Act;

(a.4) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 41/2016, s. 7.]

(a.5) Fisheries Act;

(a.6) Forest Act;

(b) Forest and Range Practices Act;

(c) Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act;

(c.1) Greenhouse Gas Industrial Reporting and Control Act;

(c.2) Integrated Pest Management Act;

(d) Land Act;

(e) sections 44 (6), 73 (1), 74 (1) and 76 (2) of the Liquor Control and Licensing Act;

(e.1) sections 65 (1) (a) and (b) and (2), 67, 73 (1) and (2), 74 (1), 78 (1), 81 (1) and 102 (4) of the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act;

(f) sections 13 (1), 24, 33, 70, 71, 73, 84, 177 and 204 of the Motor Vehicle Act;

(g) Off-Road Vehicle Act;

(h) Water Sustainability Act;

(i) Water Protection Act;

(j) Wildfire Act.

[am. B.C. Regs. 204/2006; 34/2012; 193/2015, App. 2; 41/2016, s. 7; 291/2016, Sch. 2, s. 5; 88/2018; 209/2018, s. (b).]

References to Act include regulations

2   In section 1 (2) and the Table, except as otherwise indicated, a reference to an Act includes regulations made under the Act and a reference to a portion of an Act includes regulations that apply in relation to that portion of the Act.

Table

[am. B.C. Regs. 193/2005, App. B; 291/2016, Sch. 2, s. 6; 247/2019.]