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Local Public body means

a local government body - which means a municipality; a regional district; an improvement district as defined in the Local Government Act; a local area as defined in the Local Services Act; a greater board as defined in the Community Charter or any incorporated board that provides similar services and is incorporated by letters patent; a board of variance established under section 899 of the Local Government Act or section 572 of the Vancouver Charter; the trust council, the executive committee, a local trust committee and the trust fund board, as these are defined in the Islands Trust Act; the Okanagan Basin Water Board; a water users' community as defined in the Water Act; the Okanagan-Kootenay Sterile Insect Release Board; a municipal police board established under section 23 of the Police Act; a library board as defined in the Library Act; any board, committee, commission, panel, agency or corporation that is created or owned by a body referred to in paragraphs (a) to (m) and all the members or officers of which are appointed or chosen by or under the authority of that body; a board of trustees established under section 37 of the Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act; the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, or the Park Board referred to in section 485 of the Vancouver Charter.
a health care body - which means a hospital as defined in section 1 of the Hospital Act; a Provincial auxiliary hospital established under the Hospital (Auxiliary) Act; a regional hospital district and a regional hospital district board under the Hospital District Act; a Provincial mental health facility as defined in the Mental Health Act, or a regional health board designated under section 4 (1) of the Health Authorities Act.
a social services body - which means Community Living British Columbia established under the Community Living Authority Act.
an educational body - which means a university as defined in the University Act; Royal Roads University; an institution as defined in the College and Institute Act; the Thompson Rivers University; the Open Learning Agency established under the Open Learning Agency Act; a board as defined in the School Act, or a francophone education authority as defined in the School Act, or
a governing body of a profession or occupation, if the governing body is designated in, or added by regulation to, Schedule 3;

Public body means

a ministry of the government of British Columbia,
an agency, board, commission, corporation, office or other body designated in, or added by regulation to, Schedule 2, or
a local public body but does not include (d) the office of a person who is a member or officer of the Legislative Assembly, or (e) the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court or Provincial Court.

Record includes

books, documents, maps, drawings, photographs, letters, vouchers, papers and any other thing on which information is recorded or stored by graphic, electronic, mechanical or other means, but does not include a computer program or any other mechanism that produces records;

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