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Volume 45, No. 7

B.C. Reg. 79/2002

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 23, 2002

B.C. Reg. 79/2002, deposited April 19, 2002, pursuant to the

MEDICARE PROTECTION ACT [Sections 8 and 51 (2) (d)]. Order in Council 303/2002, approved and ordered April 19, 2002.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective May 1, 2002, B.C. Reg. 426/97, the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, be amended as follows:

section 8 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) For the purposes of

section 8 of the Medicare Protection Act , the monthly premium rates for beneficiaries are

(a) $54 a month for a single beneficiary,

(b) $96 a month for a beneficiary and spouse or a beneficiary and one child, and

(c) $108 a month for a beneficiary, spouse and one or more children or a beneficiary and 2 or more children.

section 11 (5) is repealed and replaced with the following:

(5) Subject to

section 9, the percentage of premium payable by an eligible person is

(

a) nil if the adjusted net income does not exceed $16 000,

(b) 20% if the adjusted net income exceeds $16 000 but does not exceed $18 000,

(c) 40% if the adjusted net income exceeds $18 000 but does not exceed $20 000,

(d) 60% if the adjusted net income exceeds $20 000 but does not exceed $22 000

(e) 80% if the adjusted net income exceeds $22 000 but does not exceed $24 000, or

(f) 100% if the adjusted net income exceeds $24 000. — C. HANSEN, Minister of Health Services ; C. CLARK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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