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)  Commercial River Rafting Safety Act;

(a.1)  Dike Maintenance Act;

(a.2)  Ecological Reserve Act;

(a.3)  Environmental Management Act;

(a.4)  Fish Protection Act;

(a.5)  Fisheries Act;

(b)  Forest and Range Practices Act;

(c)  Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act;

(c.1)  Integrated Pest Management Act;

(d)  Land Act;

(e) sections 40 and 44 of the Liquor Control and Licensing Act;

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

(g)  Motor Vehicle (All Terrain) Act;

(h)  Water Act;

(i)  Water Protection Act;

(j)  Wildfire Act.

[am. B.C. Reg. 204/2006.]

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.