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Volume 46, No. 4

B.C. Reg. 62/2003

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 25, 2003

B.C. Reg. 62/2003, deposited February 20, 2003, pursuant to the HEALTH ACT [Sections 1 and 8]. Order in Council 155/2003, approved and ordered February 19, 2003.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective May 1, 2003, The Health Act Communicable Disease Regulation, B.C. Reg. 4/83, is amended

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a) by adding "Human Immunodeficiency Virus" to Schedules A and B,

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b) by adding

section 4 (5) as follows:

(5) A report made under

section 2 (2) or (3) or 3 respecting a person who voluntarily submitted to testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus must omit the name and address of the person if that person so chooses.

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c) by adding

section 6.2 as follows:

6.2

(1) In this section,

"index patient" means a person known or suspected to be suffering from, or who has died from, a communicable disease;

"relevant information" includes any information that may, directly or indirectly, identify the index patient.

(2) Despite sections 4 (5) and 6.1,

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a) a physician who reasonably believes that another person may be at risk of harm from an index patient may provide any relevant information to the medical health officer, and

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b) on receiving information from a physician under paragraph (a), the medical health officer may

(

i) request further relevant information from the physician,

(ii) require the index patient to undergo further examination and to provide further relevant information, and

(iii) disclose to any person who may be at risk of harm any relevant information the medical health officer feels necessary to address the harm or to prevent further harm. — S. HAWKINS, Minister of Health Planning; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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