135 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, 1. prescribing standards for police services; 1.1 establishing and governing standards concerning the adequacy and effectiveness of police services, including prescribing methods for monitoring and evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of police services against such standards; 2. prescribing procedures for the inspection and review by the Solicitor General of police forces; 3. requiring municipalities to provide police detention facilities, governing those facilities and providing for their inspection; 4. providing for financial aid to police training schools; 4.1 prescribing additional powers and duties of the Independent Police Review Director; 5. prescribing the minimum amount of remuneration to be paid by municipalities to the members of boards who are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council or Solicitor General; 6. prescribing the procedures to be followed by boards and the places at which their meetings shall be held; 6.1 governing the selection and appointment of members of boards; 6.2 prescribing courses of training for members of boards and prescribing standards in that connection; 6.3 prescribing a code of conduct for members of boards; 7. prescribing the forms of oaths or affirmations of office and secrecy for the purposes of section 32 (members of boards), section 45 (police officers), subsection 52 (6) (auxiliary members of police forces), subsection 53 (9) (special constables) and subsection 54 (8) (First Nations Constables); 8. respecting the government, operation and administration of police forces; 9. governing the qualifications for the appointment of persons to police forces and for their promotion; 10. prescribing the method for determining the amounts owed by municipalities for police services provided by the Ontario Provincial Police under section 5.1, prescribing the time when and manner in which the payments are to be made, (and, for such purposes, classifying municipalities and prescribing different methods, different times or different manners for different classes of municipalities), prescribing the interest, or the method of determining the interest, owed on late payments and governing payment credits and refunds for overpayments; 11. requiring territories without municipal organization to pay for police services provided by the Ontario Provincial Police and, i. governing the determination of the amounts payable for those services, ii. governing the payment of those amounts, including providing for the calculation and payment of interest and penalties, iii. governing the collection of those amounts, including providing for payment credits and refunds for overpayments, or providing that all or part of those amounts may be collected under the Provincial Land Tax Act, 2006 as if they were taxes imposed under that Act, and iv. for the purposes described in subparagraphs i, ii and iii, establishing different requirements for different classes of territories; 12. respecting the political activities in which municipal police officers are permitted to engage; 13. establishing the ranks that shall be held by members of municipal police forces; 14. prescribing the minimum salary or other remuneration and allowances to be paid to members of municipal police forces; 14.1 providing for the granting of service badges to members of the Ontario Provincial Police or any class thereof and for the payment of allowances to those members who are granted service badges; 15. regulating or prohibiting the use of any equipment by a police force or any of its members; 16. regulating the use of force by members of police forces; 17. prescribing standards of dress for police officers on duty and prescribing requirements respecting police uniforms; 18. prescribing courses of training for members of police forces and prescribing standards in that connection; 19. governing the conduct, duties, suspension and dismissal of members of police forces; 20. describing the circumstances under which members of police forces are permitted and not permitted to pursue persons by means of motor vehicles, and prescribing procedures that shall be followed when a person is pursued in that manner; 20.1 prescribing the nature of the information that may be disclosed under subsection 41 (1.1) by a chief of police or a person designated by a chief of police, to whom it may be disclosed and the circumstances in which it may be disclosed; 21. prescribing the records, returns, books and accounts to be kept by police forces and boards and their members; 22. prescribing the method of accounting for fees and costs that come into the hands of members of police forces; 23. prescribing a complaints process for the making of a complaint by a member of the public to a chief of police or his or her delegate, including but not limited to, i. setting out conditions in respect of the complaint, and ii. setting out limits respecting complaints made by the member of the public to the Independent Police Review Director under Part V in respect of the same matter; 23.1  Repealed:  2007, c. 5, s. 12 (2). 24. establishing procedural rules for anything related to the powers, duties or functions of the Independent Police Review Director under Part V; 24.1 establishing regional or other advisory committees consisting of representatives from community groups, representatives from the policing community and any other persons who may be prescribed, for the purpose of advising the Independent Police Review Director on matters relating to his or her duties under subsection 58 (4), and respecting the appointment of such representatives and other persons to the committees; 25. defining “frivolous or vexatious” and “made in bad faith” for the purposes of paragraph 1 of subsection 60 (4); 26. prescribing a code of conduct in which offences constituting misconduct are described for the purposes of section 80; 26.1 respecting the application of Part V, with such modifications as may be specified in the regulation, to a police officer in the circumstances referred to in subsection 90 (3); 26.2 prescribing additional persons or classes of persons for the purposes of subsection 94 (1); 26.3 prescribing qualifications, conditions or requirements, if any, for the purposes of subsection 94 (2), including prescribing different qualifications, conditions or requirements for different persons or classes of persons, and exempting persons or classes of persons from specified qualifications, conditions or requirements; 26.4 governing procedures, conditions or requirements for the investigation of complaints under Part V; 26.5 providing for the payment of fees and expenses to witnesses at hearings conducted under Part V; 27. prescribing the method of accounting for money to which section 133 applies; 27.1 clarifying or modifying the application of this Act with respect to a community safety and well-being plan that is prepared jointly under Part XI; 27.2 governing consultations with respect to community safety and well-being plans, including consultations with the advisory committee, and prescribing any consultation requirements; 27.3 prescribing and governing additional requirements that must be met by a municipal council or band council in preparing a community safety and well-being plan; 27.4 governing the contents of community safety and well-being plans, including, i. prescribing any issues or information that the plan must address or contain, and ii. prescribing any risk factors that the plan must identify; 27.5 governing the monitoring and evaluation of community safety and well-being plans; 27.6 prescribing the period within which a community safety and well-being plan must be reviewed and, if appropriate, revised; 27.7 governing transitional matters that may arise due to the amendments to this Act made by the Comprehensive Ontario Police Services Act, 2019; 28. prescribing forms and providing for their use; 29. prescribing any matter that this Act requires to be prescribed or refers to as being prescribed, other than the matters in respect of which the Solicitor General may make regulations under subsection (1.3); 30. respecting any matter that is necessary or advisable to implement this Act effectively.  R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15, s. 135 (1); 1995, c. 4, s. 4 (11); 1997, c. 8, s. 40; 1997, c. 17, s. 10; 2006, c. 33, Sched. Z.3, s. 27; 2007, c. 5, s. 12 (1, 2); 2018, c. 3, Sched. 1, s. 211 (2, 3); 2019, c. 1, Sched. 2, s. 2. Conflict (1.1) In the event of a conflict between a rule established by a regulation made under paragraph 24 of subsection (1) and a rule established by the Independent Police Review Director under clause 56 (1) (a), the rule established by regulation prevails.  2007, c. 5, s. 12 (3). Same (1.2) In the event of a conflict between a procedure, condition or requirement made under paragraph 26.4 of subsection (1) and a procedural rule or guideline established by the Independent Police Review Director under clause 56 (1) (b), the procedure, condition or requirement made by regulation prevails.  2007, c. 5, s. 12 (3). Solicitor General regulations (1.3) The Solicitor General may make regulations, (a) governing the publication of community safety and well-being plans; (a.1) prescribing a date for the purposes of clause 143 (3) (a); (b) governing reports on community safety and well-being plans, including specifying the required contents of the reports and governing the publication of the reports; (c) prescribing information that a municipal council must provide the Minister under section 151 and prescribing the period within which the information must be provided; (d) prescribing and governing the remuneration and expenses to be paid to a community safety and well-being planner by a municipal council. 2018, c. 3, Sched. 1, s. 211 (4); 2020, c. 6, Sched. 5, s. 1. Same (2) A regulation made under subsection (1) or (1.3) may be general or particular in its application.  R.S.O. 1990, c. P.15, s. 135 (2); 2018, c. 3, Sched. 1, s. 211 (5). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1995, c. 4, s. 4 (11) - 14/12/1995; 1997, c. 8, s. 40 - 27/11/1997; 1997, c. 17, s. 10 - 04/06/1998 2006, c. 33, Sched. Z.3, s. 27 - 01/01/2009 2007, c. 5, s. 12 (1-3) - 19/10/2009 2009, c. 33, Sched. 9, s. 10 (4) - no effect - see 2007, c. 5, s. 12 (2) - 19/10/2009 CTS 20 AU 14 - 1 2018, c. 3, Sched. 1, s. 211 (2-5) - 01/01/2018 2019, c. 1, Sched. 2, s. 2 - 26/03/2019 2020, c. 6, Sched. 5, s. 1 - 14/04/2020