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Volume 48, No. 7

B.C. Reg. 176/2005

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 5, 2005

B.C. Reg. 176/2005, deposited March 24, 2005, pursuant

to the FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION ACT [Section 19] and the SOCIAL

SERVICE TAX ACT [Sections 128, 129 and 133]. Order in Council 242/2005,

approved and ordered March 17, 2005.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor,

by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) for a period ending March 31, 2005, approval is given

for the remission of the obligation of the provincial government, an agent of

the provincial government, a regional district, a municipality, a fire department,

a police department, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, the Victoria

Airport Authority, the British Columbia Ambulance Service, the Emergency Health

Services Commission, British Columbia Transit or the University of Victoria

to pay social service tax for telecommunication services purchased from E-Comm

Emergency Communications for Southwest British Columbia Incorporated on or after

September 22, 1997, or the Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications

(CREST) Incorporated on or after July 12, 2001, in relation to their

emergency communications system, and

(

b) effective April 1, 2005, Division 10 of the Social

Service Tax Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 84/58, is amended by adding

the following section:

Exemption for emergency communication

system telecommunication services

10.1 For the purposes of

section 56 (

d) of the

Act, telecommunication services purchased by the provincial government, an agent

of the provincial government, a regional district, a municipality, a fire department,

a police department, the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, the Victoria

Airport Authority, the British Columbia Ambulance Service, the Emergency Health

Services Commission, British Columbia Transit or the University of Victoria

from E-Comm Emergency Communications for Southwest British Columbia Incorporated

or the Capital Region Emergency Service Telecommunications (CREST) Incorporated

in relation to their emergency communications systems are exempt from tax.

C. HANSEN, Minister of Finance ; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member

of the Executive Council .

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