The Agricultural Land Commission And Clustering

The Province of British Columbia has recently amended the Administrative Tribunals Act and a number of other enactments, including the Agricultural Land Commission Act. We want to point out one aspect of these amendments – tribunal clustering.

In this regard, Part 3 of the Administrative Tribunals Act enables the Province, by regulation, to designate two or more tribunals as a cluster if the Province believes that the tribunals are likely to be more effective and efficient together than alone. When a cluster is created, the Province would appoint an executive chair to be responsible for the management and operation of the cluster. This executive chair will effectively replace the chairs of the individual tribunals in the cluster.