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Volume 63, No. 15

211/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

August 11, 2020

B.C. Reg. 211/2020 , deposited August 10, 2020, under the MEDICARE PROTECTION ACT [section 51]. Order in Council 472/2020, approved and ordered August 10, 2020.

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

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Medical and Health

Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule.

— A. DIX, Minister of Health ; R. FLEMING, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended

by adding the following section:

Oral and maxillofacial surgical services in relation to public health emergency

19.1

(1) In this section:

"public health emergency" means an emergency that is the subject of a notice provided by the provincial health

officer under

section 52 (2) of the Public Health Act ;

"qualifying period" means a period of time specified under subsection (3).

(2) During a qualifying period,

section 19 (2) is to be read as though it also

specified the following services:

(

a) a medically required oral surgical procedure rendered by an oral and maxillofacial

surgeon to a beneficiary;

(

b) any other medically required service rendered by an oral and maxillofacial

surgeon to a beneficiary.

(3) The commission may specify a period of time during a public health emergency

as a qualifying period for the purposes of this

section if the commission considers

that the availability of dental services will be greatly reduced during the period

because of the emergency.

(4) For the purposes of this section, a public health emergency ends on the date

on which the provincial health officer provides notice under

section 59 (

b) of the

Public Health Act that the emergency has passed.

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