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Volume 66, No. 9

131/2023

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

June 6, 2023

B.C. Reg. 131/2023 , deposited May 25, 2023, under the PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE ACT [sections 3 and 48]. Order in Council 324/2023, approved and ordered May 25, 2023.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) the Government Body Designation (Public Interest Disclosure) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 58/2022, is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 1,

(

b) effective June 1, 2023, the Government Body Designation (Public Interest Disclosure) Regulation is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 2, and

(

c) effective June 1, 2023, the Public Interest Disclosure Regulation, B.C. Reg. 251/2019, is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 3.

— N. SHARMA, Attorney General ; L. BEARE, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule 1

1 The

Schedule to the Government Body Designation (Public Interest Disclosure) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 58/2022, is amended

(

a) by repealing the following items as indicated:

Column 1

Government Body

Column 2

Head of Government Body

BC Lottery Corporation

President and Chief Executive Officer

Industry Training Authority

Chief Executive Officer

, and

(

b) by adding the following items as indicated:

Column 1

Government Body

Column 2

Head of Government Body

British Columbia Lottery Corporation

Chair

SkilledTradesBC

Chief Executive Officer

Schedule 2

Section 2 of the Government Body Designation (Public Interest Disclosure) Regulation, B.C. Reg. 58/2022, is repealed and the following substituted:

Prescribed classes of employees

(1) In this section:

"health facility" means a health facility that is usually operated by a specified body;

"registrant" means a registrant as defined in

section 1 of the Health Professions Act ;

"specified body" means any of the following:

(

a) a regional health authority designated under the Health Authorities Act ;

(

b) the British Columbia Emergency Health Services, a corporation continued under the Emergency Health Services Act ;

(

c) the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission, a corporation continued under the Forensic Psychiatry Act ;

(

d) the Providence Health Care Society, a society as defined in

section 1 of the Societies Act ;

(

e) the Provincial Health Services Authority, a society as defined in

section 1 of the Societies Act .

(2) For the purposes of the definition of "employee" in

section 1 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act , the following classes of persons are prescribed:

(

a) members of government bodies designated in the

Schedule to this regulation who exercise an adjudicative function of a tribunal;

(

b) registrants

(

i) when they are receiving training or providing services at a health facility, or

(ii) when they are receiving training or providing services through a website, online service or similar electronic application on behalf of a health facility.

2 The

Schedule is amended by adding the following items as indicated:

Column 1

Government Body

Column 2

Head of Government Body

British Columbia Emergency Health Services

President and Chief Executive Officer, Provincial Health Services Authority

Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission

President and Chief Executive Officer, Provincial Health Services Authority

Fraser Health Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Interior Health Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Northern Health Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Providence Health Care Society

President and Chief Executive Officer

Provincial Health Services Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Vancouver Island Health Authority

President and Chief Executive Officer

Schedule 3

Section 2 of the Public Interest Disclosure Regulation, B.C. Reg. 251/2019, is repealed and the following substituted:

Relationship of Act to other enactments – exception

2 For the purposes of

section 3 (1) (b) [relationship of Act to other Acts] of the Act, the following provisions of the following enactments prevail:

(

a) section 51 of the Evidence Act ;

(

b) section 38 of the Witness Security Act .

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