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Volume 61, No. 20

206/2018

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 9, 2018

B.C. Reg. 206/2018 , deposited October 5, 2018, under the MOTOR VEHICLE ACT [section 210]. Order in Council 539/2018, approved and ordered October 5, 2018.

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 Appendix.

— M. FARNWORTH, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General ; G. HEYMAN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Appendix

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

Prescribed provisions

1.02 For the purpose of paragraph (

f) of the definition of “ motor vehicle related Criminal Code offence ” in

section 1 of the Act,

section 253 (3) (a), (

b) and (

c) of the Criminal Code is prescribed.

2 Table 3 of the

Schedule to Division 28 is amended by adding the following headings and item as indicated:

Criminal Code

Description of Offence

Section 253 (3) (

b) Operation of motor vehicle with blood drug concentration in prescribed range

3 Table 4 of the

Schedule to Division 28 is amended under the heading “ Criminal Code ”

(

a) by repealing items 14 and 15 and substituting the following as indicated:

Criminal Code

Description of Offence

Section 253 (1) (

a) Operation of motor vehicle while ability impaired by alcohol or drugs

Section 253 (1) (

b) Operation of motor vehicle with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in blood

, and

(

b) by adding the following items as indicated:

Criminal Code

Description of Offence

15.1

Section 253 (3) (

a) Operation of motor vehicle with blood drug concentration equal to or exceeding prescribed value

15.2

Section 253 (3) (

c) Operation of motor vehicle with blood alcohol concentration and blood drug concentration equal to or exceeding prescribed values

4 The table in

section 46.04 is amended

(

a) by adding the following items as indicated:

Item

Column 1

Event

Column 2

Remedial Program Points

Column 3

Ignition Interlock Program Points

9.1

Person has been convicted of an offence under

section 253 (3) (

a) of the Criminal Code in respect of a motor vehicle [operates a motor vehicle with a blood drug concentration equal to or exceeding a prescribed value]

9.2

Person has been convicted of an offence under

section 253 (3) (

b) of the Criminal Code in respect of a motor vehicle [operates a motor vehicle with a blood drug concentration in a prescribed range]

9.3

Person has been convicted of an offence under

section 253 (3) (

c) of the Criminal Code in respect of a motor vehicle [operates a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration and blood drug concentration equal to or exceeding prescribed values]

(

b) in column 3 of item 11 by striking out “ 0 ” and substituting “ 6 ”, and

(

c) in column 3 of item 14 by striking out “ 0 ” and substituting “ 6 ”.

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