BILL 4 – 2005
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AMENDMENT ACT, 2005

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1 Section 37 (4) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 165, is repealed.

Transitional -- current acting commissioner

2 (1) Despite section 39 (2) (c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the person holding office on September 1, 2005, as acting commissioner under that Act, holds office until a person is appointed under section 37 (1) of that Act.

(2) The exercise of a power or the performance of a function or duty by the acting commissioner referred to in subsection (1) may not be held to be invalid because section 39 (2) (c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act was in force.

Commencement

3 The provisions of this Act referred to in column 1 of the following table come into force as set out in column 2 of the table: