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1st Session, 43rd Parliament

(2025) FIRST READING

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HONOURABLE JOSIE OSBORNE

MINISTER OF HEALTH

BILL 32 – 2025

MENTAL HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2), 2025

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

CLAUSE 1: [Mental Health Act,

section 16] extends liability protection to providers of authorized professional services, care and treatment.

Section 16 of the Mental Health Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 288, is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(b.4) providing to a patient a professional service, or care or treatment, authorized by the director under this Act to be given to the patient, including treatment described in a consent to treatment form signed under

section 8 (a); .

CLAUSE 2: [Mental Health Act,

section 31] removes a provision that deems patients to have consented to treatment if the director has authorized treatment.

Section 31 is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (1), and

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out " A patient to whom subsection (1) applies, " and substituting " A patient who is detained in a designated facility under

section 22, 28, 29, 30 or 42 or is released on leave or is transferred to an approved home under

section 37 or 38, ".

Commencement

3 This Act comes into force on the date of Royal Assent.

Explanatory Notes

CLAUSE 1: [Mental Health Act,

section 16] extends liability protection to providers of authorized professional services, care and treatment.

CLAUSE 2: [Mental Health Act,

section 31] removes a provision that deems patients to have consented to treatment if the director has authorized treatment.

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