Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Definition of board

• 46 (1) In this section and sections 47 to 47.3, board means

  • (a) a board of inquiry appointed under section 24.1,

  • (b) an adjudication board appointed under section 43 or 44, and

  • (c) a discharge and demotion board appointed under section 45.2,

  and, except for the purposes of subsection (4), includes the Committee and the Commission.

• Marginal note:Proceedings

  (2) All proceedings before a board shall be dealt with by the board as informally and expeditiously as the circumstances and considerations of fairness permit.

• Marginal note:Witness fees

  (3) Any person, other than a member, summoned to attend at any proceeding before a board is entitled, in the discretion of the board, to receive the like fees and allowances for so attending as if summoned to attend before the Federal Court.

• Marginal note:Rules

  (4) Subject to subsection (5), the Commissioner may make rules governing the proceedings, practice and procedure before a board and the performance of the duties and functions of a board under this Act.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (5) The Minister may make rules governing the proceedings, practice and procedure before a board of inquiry appointed by the Minister under section 24.1 and the performance of the duties and functions of such a board under this Act or the Minister may adopt as such rules the rules or any part of the rules made under subsection (4).