This web page may change from time to time. It provides links
to provincial government legislations and comments on the
legislation.
:
Link to the University Act
updated.
The University Act
The University Act
sets out the rules of University Governance for public British
Columbia Universities.
This Act has been most recently amended‡ by
the University Amendment Act.
The latter was passed in a rush by the Provincial Government.
It has the effect of
authorizing several new “regional”
Universities; and
removing the right of faculty to participate in the election of
the Chancellor.
‡:
Much of this page was written in 2008.
There are multiple amendments after 2008.
The points above are still correct.
This Act makes multiple changes to how elections are to be conducted
in British Columbia. Perhaps its most notable provisions are strict
limitations on any “political” advertising in the two
months prior to an election.
These restrictions specifically do not apply to the government:
3.1(1) For greater certainty, nothing in this Act
affects …(a) the government…
