Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Marginal note:Objection to appointment

• 44 (1) Within seven days after the day on which a member is served with a notice under subsection 43(2), the member may object in writing to the designated officer referred to in subsection 43(1) to the appointment of any person as a member of the conduct board, and the designated officer shall, on receiving the objection, decide whether to reject the objection or to allow the objection and appoint another person as a member of the board.

• Marginal note:Reasons for objection

  (2) The objection must contain reasons for the objection.

• Marginal note:Notice

  (3) After the designated officer makes a decision under subsection (1) with respect to an objection, the designated officer shall serve the member making the objection with a notice in writing setting out the decision and the reasons for it, and, if the objection is allowed, the designated officer shall

  • (a) appoint another person as a new member of the conduct board; and

  • (b) set out in the notice

    • (i) the name of the other person, and

    • (ii) a statement of the member’s right to object to the appointment of the other person as provided in this section.

• Marginal note:Objection to new person

  (4) The provisions of this section apply, with any modifications that the circumstances require, with respect to the appointment of a person under subsection (3) as though the notice setting out the name of the person were a notice referred to in subsection (1).