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Volume 50, No. 7

B.C. Reg. 70/2007

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 10, 2007

B.C. Reg. 70/2007, deposited March 30, 2007, pursuant to the EMPLOYMENT AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT [Section 26]. Order in Council 169/2007, approved and ordered March 29, 2007.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective June 1, 2007, the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation, B.C. Reg. 265/2002, is amended in accordance with the attached Appendix.

— C. RICHMOND, Minister of Employment and Income Assistance; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Appendix

Section 50 of the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation, B.C. Reg. 265/2002, is repealed and the following substituted:

Clothing supplement for people in specified special care facilities

(1) The minister may provide a supplement, for the purchase of necessary clothing, to a person with disabilities who is eligible for disability assistance and receives accommodation and care in a special care facility if

(

a) clothing is not provided in the facility,

(

b) there are no funds available from the recipient's comforts allowance to purchase the clothing, and

(

c) there are no resources available to the recipient's family unit to pay for the clothing.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the special care facility is an alcohol and drug treatment centre or a special care facility described in

section 8 (3) of

Schedule A.

Section 8 of

Schedule A is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by striking out "special care facility" and substituting "special care facility (other than a special care facility described in subsection (3))",

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out "special care facility" and substituting "special care facility under subsection (1)", and

(

c) by adding the following subsection:

(3) For a person with disabilities who receives accommodation and care in a special care facility operated by a service provider as defined in

section 1 of the

Community Living Authority Act , the amount referred to in

section 24 (a)

[amount of disability assistance] of this regulation is the sum of

(

a) the support allowance that is applicable under sections 2 and 3 of this

Schedule for a family unit matching the applicant's or recipient's family unit, plus

(

b) the maximum shelter allowance that is applicable under

section 4 of this

Schedule for a family unit matching the applicant's or recipient's family unit.

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