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Volume 63, No. 8

93/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

May 5, 2020

B.C. Reg. 93/2020 , deposited May 1, 2020, under the MOTOR VEHICLE ACT [section 210 (3) (

o) and (9)]. Order in Council 209/2020, approved and ordered May 1, 2020.

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

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Motor Vehicle Act

Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, are amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— D. EBY, Attorney General ; L. BEARE, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, are amended by adding the

following Division:

Division 30F – Drivers' Licences –

Exemptions Due to COVID-19 Emergency

Definitions

30F.01 In this Division:

"COVID-19 emergency" means the emergency that is the subject of

(

a) the notice provided on March 17, 2020 by the provincial health officer under

section 52 (2) of the Public Health Act , and

(

b) the declaration of a state of emergency made on March 18, 2020, and any extension

of that declaration, under

section 9 of the Emergency Program Act ;

"end of the COVID-19 emergency" means the later of the following:

(

a) the date on which the provincial health officer provides notice under

section 59 (

b) of the Public Health Act that the COVID-19 emergency has passed;

(

b) the date on which the last extension of the declaration of a state of emergency,

referred to in paragraph (

b) of the definition of "COVID-19 emergency", expires or

is cancelled.

Exemptions

30F.02

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the corporation may exempt the following persons from

the requirements under the Act respecting the holding of a driver's licence issued

to the person under the Act, the exemption to expire on a date that is not later than

90 days after the end of the COVID-19 emergency:

(

a) a person who was exempt under

section 34 (1.1) (

a) of the Act and whose exemption

ended after March 16, 2020 and before the date that is 90 days after the end of the

COVID-19 emergency, but only if the exemption ended solely because it is more than

6 months from the date the person last entered British Columbia;

(

b) a person who was exempt under

section 34 (1.1) (

b) of the Act but whose exemption

ended after March 16, 2020 and before the date that is 90 days after the end of the

COVID-19 emergency, but only if the exemption ended solely because it was more than

90 days after the date the person became ordinarily resident in British Columbia;

(

c) a person who was exempt under

section 34 (1.1) (

c) of the Act but whose exemption

ended after March 16, 2020 and before the date that is 90 days after the end of the

COVID-19 emergency because the person, as a result of the COVID-19 emergency, ceased

to be registered as a full-time student at or attend any of the educational institutions

listed in

section 21 (2) (

b) of the Act.

(2) If the corporation provides an exemption to a person under subsection (1),

the person is also exempt as described in

section 34 (2) of the Act for the same period

as specified by the corporation under subsection (1) of this section.

(3) The corporation may provide an exemption to a person under subsection

(1) only on the condition that the person complies with all other requirements of

section 34

of the Act.

Repeal

30F.03 This Division is repealed on the date that is 100 days after the end of the COVID-19

emergency.

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