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(a) Repealed.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(a.4) Repealed.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) Fish and Seafood 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 52 (1), 53 (1) and (3), 63 (1) to (3), 65 (1) and (2), 67, 73 (1) and (2), 74 (1), 77, 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;

(g.1) Trespass Act;

(h) Water Sustainability Act;

(i) Water Protection Act;

(j) Wildfire Act;

(k) Wildlife 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); 143/2021, s. 1; 86/2022, s. 1.]

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.

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[en. B.C. Reg. 86/2022, s. 2.]