151. (1) Executive Committee - There shall be an Executive Committee of the Board consisting of the Chairperson, the Executive Vice-Chairperson, the Vice-Chairperson, Appeal Division, the regional Vice-Chairpersons and two other members of the Board designated by the Chairperson after consultation with the Minister.

         (2) Functions - The Executive Committee

shall, after such consultation with Board members as it considers appropriate, adopt policies relating to reviews under this Part;

shall, where requested by the Chairperson, advise the Chairperson on any other matters concerning the functions of the Board or of the Chairperson under this or any other Act of Parliament; and

may direct that the number of members required to constitute a panel for the review of any class of cases shall be greater than the number fixed by the regulations.

         (3) Respect for diversity - Policies adopted under paragraph (2)(a) must respect gender, ethnic, cultural and linguistic differences and be responsive to the special needs of women and aboriginal peoples, as well as to the needs of other groups of offenders with special requirements.

         (4) Chair - Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be chaired by the Chairperson.

[1992, c. 20, s. 151; 1995, c. 42, s. 58(F). ]

152. (1) Chief Executive Officer - The Chairperson of the Board is its chief executive officer and as such has supervision over and direction of the work and the staff of the Board, and the Chairperson shall chair general meetings of the Board.

         (2) Withdrawal of member - The Chairperson may direct that a member of the Board not participate in a review panel where, in the opinion of the Chairperson, the participation of the member in the review may result in a reasonable apprehension of bias.

         (3) Constitution of review panels - The Chairperson may direct that the number of members required to constitute a panel for the review of any particular case shall be greater than the number fixed by the regulations.

         (4) Investigations - The Chairperson may appoint a person or per- sons to investigate and report on any matter relating to the operations of the Board, and sections 7 to 13 of the Inquiries Act apply in respect of such investigations, with such modifications as the circumstances require, as if the references to "commissioners" in those sections were references to the person or persons so appointed.

         (5) Delegation - The Chairperson may authorize any full-time member of the Board to exercise any of the Chairperson's functions under this Part, in accordance with any conditions specified by the Chairperson, and a function so exercised shall be deemed to have been exercised by the Chairperson.

         (6) Manner of exercising - Where the Chairperson is authorized by this Part to designate a person to exercise a power, the Chairperson may specify the conditions under which that person may exercise the power.

         (7) Absence, incapacity or vacancy - In the event of the absence or incapacity of the Chairperson or a vacancy in the office of Chairperson, the Executive Vice-Chairperson may exercise all the powers of the Chairperson.

         (8) Idem - In the event of the absence or incapacity of, or a vacancy in the offices of, the Chairperson and the Executive Vice-Chairperson, a fulltime member of the Board designated by the Minister may exercise all the powers of the Chairperson.

153. (1) Remuneration of full-time and substitute members - Each full-time and substitute member of the Board shall be paid such remuneration as is fixed by the Governor in Council, and is entitled to be paid reasonable travel and living expenses incurred while performing duties away from the administrative centre to which the member is assigned.

         (2) Leave of absence from Public Service - An employee in the Public Service appointed as a full-time member of the Board shall be given leave of absence without pay from the Public Service.

         (3) Remuneration of part-time members - Each part-time member of the Board shall be paid such remuneration as is fixed by the Governor in Council for each day that the member is serving as such, and is entitled to be paid reasonable travel and living expenses incurred while performing duties away from the member's ordinary place of residence.

         (4) Pension - The full-time members and employees of the Board shall be deemed to be employed in the Public Service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act.

[1992, c. 20, s. 153; 2003, c. 22, s. 225(E).]

154. Immunity of members - No criminal or civil proceedings lie against a member of the Board for anything done or said in good faith in the exercise or purported exercise of the functions 9f a member of the Board under this or any other Act of Parliament.

155. (1) Impartiality - A full-time member of the Board shall not hold any office or engage in any occupation incompatible with the exercise of the member's functions under this or any other Act of Parliament.

         (2) Idem - A member of the Board may not participate in a review of a case in circumstances where a reasonable apprehension of bias may result from the participation of that member.

155.1 (1) Inquiries - The Chairperson may recommend to the Minister that an inquiry be held to determine whether any member of the Board should be subject to any disciplinary or remedial measures for any reason set out in any of paragraphs 155.2(2)(a) to (d).

         (2) Judge to conduct inquiry - Where the Minister considers it appropriate that an inquiry under this section be held, a judge, supernumerary judge or former judge of the Federal Court, in this section and section 155.2 referred to as a "judge", shall conduct the inquiry.

         (3) Powers - A judge conducting an inquiry under this section has all the powers, rights and privileges that are vested in a superior court and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, has the power

to issue to any person a summons requiring the person to appear at the time and place mentioned in the summons to testify with respect to all matters within the person's knowledge relative to the inquiry and to bring and produce any document, book or paper that the person has or controls relative to the inquiry; and

to administer oaths and examine any person on oath.

         (4) Inquiry public - Subject to subsections (5) and (6), an inquiry under this section shall be conducted in public.

         (5) Confidentiality - A judge conducting an inquiry under this section may, on application, take any measures or make any order that the judge considers necessary to ensure the confidentiality of the inquiry where the judge is satisfied that, during the inquiry or as a result of the inquiry being conducted in public, as the case may be,

matters involving public security may be disclosed;

financial or personal or other matters may be disclosed of such a nature that the desirability of avoiding public disclosures of those matters in the interest of any person affected or in the public interest outweighs the desirability of adhering to the principle that the inquiry be conducted in public; or

there is a reasonable likelihood that the life, liberty or security of a person would be endangered.

         (6) Idem - Where a judge conducting an inquiry under this section considers it appropriate to do so, the judge may take any measures or make any order that the judge considers necessary to ensure the confidentiality of any hearing held in respect of an application referred to in subsection (5).

         (7) Rules of evidence - A judge conducting an inquiry under this section is not bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence and, in any proceedings of the inquiry, the judge may receive and base a decision on evidence adduced in the proceedings and considered credible or trustworthy in the circumstances of the case.

         (8) Right to grant standing - A judge conducting an inquiry under this section may grant standing to the hearing to any party where the judge determines such an order to be appropriate.

         (9) Right to be heard - Every person in respect of whom an inquiry under this section is conducted shall be given reasonable notice of the subject-matter of the inquiry and of the time and place of any hearing thereof and shall be given an opportunity, in person or by counsel, to be heard at the hearing, to cross-examine witnesses and to adduce evidence.

[1995, c. 42, s. 59; 2002, c. 8, s. 132.]

155.2 (1) Report of inquiry - After an inquiry under section 155.1 has been completed, the judge who conducted the inquiry shall prepare a report of the conclusions of the inquiry and submit it to the Minister.

         (2) Recommendations - Where an inquiry under section 155.1 has been held and, in the opinion of the judge who conducted the inquiry, the member of the Board in respect of whom the inquiry was held

has become incapacitated from the due execution of the member's office by reason of infirmity,

is guilty of misconduct,

has failed in the due execution of the member's office, or

has been placed, by conduct or otherwise, in a position that is incompatible with the due execution of the member's office,

the judge may, in the report of the inquiry, recommend that the member be suspended without pay or be removed from office or may recommend that such disciplinary or remedial measure as the judge considers necessary be taken.

         (3) Governor in Council may suspend or remove - Where the Minister receives a report under subsection (1), the Minister shall send a copy of the report to the Governor in Council, who may suspend the member of the Board to whom the report relates without pay, remove the member from office or take any other disciplinary or remedial measure.

[1995, c. 42, s. 59. ]