British Columbia Order in Council — Amendment to Laboratory Services Regulation (O.C. 368/2023)

O.C. 368/2023

British Columbia — Orders in Council

368 June 19, 2023 PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ORDER OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL Order in Council No. , Approved and Ordered Executive Council Chambers, Victoria On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that (

a) the Laboratory Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015 is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule I, and (

b) the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97 is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 2. Presiding Member of the Executive Council (This

part is Jar administrative purposes 011/y a11d is part of the Order.) Authority under which Order is made: Act and section: Laboratory Services Act, S.B.C. 2014, c. 8, s. 71; Medicare Protection Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 286, s. 51 Other: OIC 132/2015 ; 1436/97 page I of Rl0585103

SCHEDULE

Section of the Laboratory Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 52/2015, is amended (

a) in subsection (1) (

d) by striking out ", "nurse practitioner" or "registere d nurse practitioner "", and (

b) by repealing subsection (2) and substituting the following:

(2) A health care practitioner is prescribed as a referring practitioner for the purposes of the Acl if the health care practitioner is a registrant of the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives who (

a) is authorized to use the title "nurse practitioner", or (

b) is authorized to use the title "registered nurse" or "regis tered psychiatric nurse", and (

i) is a certified practice registrant within the meaning of the Nurses (Registered) and Nurse Practitioners Regulation , or (ii) makes a request for a beneficiary to receive benefits in relation to communicable disease prevention and management. 2

Section 3.1 is repealed. 3

Section is repealed and the following substituted: Prescribed agency For the purposes of the definition of "prescribed agency" in

section I of the Act, the Provincial Health Services Authority is prescribed.

SCHEDULE

Section of the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended (

a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the following: (

I) In this section, "RN (certified) or RPN (certified)" means either of the following who is a certified practice registrant within the meaning of the Nurses (Registered) and Nurse Practitioners Regulation: (

a) a registered nurse; (

b) a registered psychiatric nurse., and (

b) by repealing the table to subsection (2) and substituting the following: Item Column I Column Practitioner Diagnostic Services That May Be Requested I Enrolled medical All diagnostic services practitioner Nurse practitioner Those diagnostic services associated with the scope of practice of a nurse practitioner Item Column I Column Practitioner Diagnostic Services That May Be Requested RN (certified) or Those diagnostic services associated with the RPN (certified) scope of practice of a RN ( certified) or RPN (certified) , if requested without an order having been made by a practitioner referred to in any of items 1, 2, 4, 5 or Enrolled dentist Those diagnostic services associated with the scope of practice of a dentist Enrolled podiatrist Those diagnost ic services associated with the scope of practice of a podiatrist Enrolled midwife Those diagnost ic services associated with the scope of practice of a midwife

Document details

Collection	British Columbia — Orders in Council
Citation	O.C. 368/2023
Type	order_in_council
Volume / chapter	arc oic 0368 2023
Language	en
Format	pdf
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	446ae5c071829130bfaa0b9d7ba709d496dabda2

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