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Volume 63, No. 18

263/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 22, 2020

B.C. Reg. 263/2020 , deposited September 20, 2020, under the LABORATORY SERVICES ACT [section 71]. Order in Council 559/2020, approved and ordered September 20, 2020.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Laboratory Services

Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— A. DIX, Minister of Health ; D. EBY, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 3.1 (1) (

a) of the Laboratory Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015,

is amended by striking out " Nursing Professionals " and substituting " Nurses and Midwives ".

2 The following

section is added:

Temporary referring practitioners for drug samples

3.2

(1) A health care practitioner is prescribed as a referring practitioner for the

purposes of the Act if the health care practitioner

(

a) is a registrant of the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives who

is authorized

(

i) to use the title "registered nurse" or "registered psychiatric nurse", and

(ii) to provide the services referred to in the order of the Provincial Health

Officer described as "Registered Nurse and Registered Psychiatric Nurse Public Health

Pharmacotherapy", made September 16, 2020,

(

b) makes a request for a beneficiary to receive benefits in relation to ordering

diagnostic tests to support the making of a diagnosis of a problem substance use condition

or substance use disorder, and

(

c) made the request referred to in paragraph (

b) during the period that

(

i) begins on the date this

section comes into effect, and

(ii) ends on the date on which the order referred to in paragraph (a) (ii) ceases

to have effect.

(2) Section 3 (3) and (4) applies for the purposes of this section.

(3) This

section is repealed on the date referred to in subsection (1) (c) (ii).

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