WHEREAS sections 201 and 2 of the Emergency Program Act specifically state that: The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, be regulation, establish criteria by which the eligibility of a person to receive disaster financial assistance is to be determined; The Lieutenant Governor in Council or the Minister may provide disaster financial assistance in accordance with the regulations to persons who suffer loss as a result of a disaster. Therefore be it resolved that UBCM ask the Lieutenant Governor in Council to expand the disaster relief fund making it available to all property owners when such disaster is a result of natural andor non-human causes.
Emergency Management BC The Compensation and Disaster Financial Assistance Regulation clearly outlines how funding is available to affected property owners in a defined Disaster Financial Assistance eligible event. Natural andor technical failings are considered in that determination.