Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Marginal note:Initiation

• 43 (1) Subject to subsections (7) and (8), where it appears to an appropriate officer that a member has contravened the Code of Conduct and the appropriate officer is of the opinion that, having regard to the gravity of the contravention and to the surrounding circumstances, informal disciplinary action under section 41 would not be sufficient if the contravention were established, the appropriate officer shall initiate a hearing into the alleged contravention and notify the officer designated by the Commissioner for the purposes of this section of that decision.

• Marginal note:Adjudication board

  (2) On being notified pursuant to subsection (1), the designated officer shall appoint three officers as members of an adjudication board to conduct the hearing and shall notify the appropriate officer of the appointments.

• Marginal note:Qualifications

  (3) At least one of the officers appointed as a member of an adjudication board shall be a graduate of a school of law recognized by the law society of any province.

• Marginal note:Notice of hearing

  (4) Forthwith after being notified pursuant to subsection (2), the appropriate officer shall serve the member alleged to have contravened the Code of Conduct with a notice in writing of the hearing, together with

  • (a) a copy of any written or documentary evidence that is intended to be produced at the hearing;

  • (b) a copy of any statement obtained from any person who is intended to be called as a witness at the hearing; and

  • (c) a list of exhibits that are intended to be entered at the hearing.

• Marginal note:Contents of notice

  (5) A notice of hearing served on a member pursuant to subsection (4) may allege more than one contravention of the Code of Conduct and shall contain

  • (a) a separate statement of each alleged contravention;

  • (b) a statement of the particulars of the act or omission constituting each alleged contravention;

  • (c) the names of the members of the adjudication board; and

  • (d) a statement of the right of the member to object to the appointment of any member of the adjudication board as provided in section 44.

• Marginal note:Statement of particulars

  (6) Every statement of particulars contained in a notice of hearing in accordance with paragraph (5)(b) shall contain sufficient details, including, where practicable, the place and date of each contravention alleged in the notice, to enable the member who is served with the notice to determine each such contravention so that the member may prepare a defence and direct it to the occasion and events indicated in the notice.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (7) No hearing may be initiated by an appropriate officer under this section in respect of an alleged contravention of the Code of Conduct by a member if the informal disciplinary action referred to in paragraph 41(1)(g) has been taken against the member in respect of that contravention.

• Marginal note:Limitation period

  (8) No hearing may be initiated by an appropriate officer under this section in respect of an alleged contravention of the Code of Conduct by a member after the expiration of one year from the time the contravention and the identity of that member became known to the appropriate officer.

• Marginal note:Certificate

  (9) A certificate purporting to be signed by an appropriate officer as to the time an alleged contravention of the Code of Conduct by a member and the identity of that member became known to the appropriate officer is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of that time without proof of the signature or official character of the person purporting to have signed the certificate.