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Volume 66, No. 3

18/2023

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 14, 2023

B.C. Reg. 18/2023 , deposited February 1, 2023, under the WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT [section 145]. Resolution of the Workers’ Compensation Board, dated January 31, 2023.

The Workers’ Compensation Board orders that, effective May 15, 2023, the Workers Compensation Act , R.S.B.C. 2019, c. 1, is amended as set out in the attached Appendix.

— J. PARR, Chair, Board of Directors .

Appendix

Section 2 of

Schedule 2 of the Workers Compensation Act, R.S.B.C. 2019, c. 1, is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) (

a) by striking out " 500, 1 000 and 2 000 Hertz, in turn, by pure-tone air-conduction audiometry " and substituting " 1 000, 2 000, 3 000 and 4 000 Hertz, in turn, by pure-tone air- or bone-conduction audiometry ", and

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out " column 1 of item 10 " and substituting " column 1 of item 11 ".

Section 3 of

Schedule 2 is amended

(

a) in paragraph (

b) by striking out " 3% " and substituting " 6% ", and

(

b) in paragraph (

c) by striking out " 15% " and substituting " 36% ".

3 The table in

Schedule 2 is repealed and the following substituted:

Table

Item

Column 1

Range of Hearing Loss

(decibels)

Column 2

Percentage of Disability

for Ear Most Affected

Column 3

Percentage of Disability

for Ear Least Affected

0-34

35-39

0.3

1.5

40-44

1.0

5.0

45-49

1.7

8.5

50-54

2.3

11.5

55-59

3.0

15.0

60-64

3.7

18.5

65-69

4.3

21.5

70-74

5.0

25.0

75-79

5.7

28.5

80 or more

6.0

30.0

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