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3 facts you need to know
About three changes to B.C. laws…
By Bill Bennett
Kootenay East MLA
1. The Mines Act will be changed to give provincial authorities more time to sort through the results of the independent investigation into the Mount Polley mine accident and future mine events and sufficient time to lay charges if justified.
2. The Police Act will be changed to add a recommendation from the missing women commission that municipalities with their own police forces must do a better job of collaborating and that the province has the authority to create more integrated policing where necessary.
3. The Agriculture Land Commission Act will be changed to ensure that local governments cannot prohibit activities on Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) land that have been specifically defined by provincial regulation as “farm use.” The status of the current right of local government to prohibit uses on ALR land is unchanged.
