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Volume 45, No. 22

B.C. Reg. 312/2002

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 3, 2002

B.C. Reg. 312/2002, deposited November 29, 2002, pursuant to the EMPLOYMENT AND ASSISTANCE ACT [Sections 17 (5) and 35]. Order in Council 1031/2002, approved and ordered November 28, 2002.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective December 1, 2002, the Employment and Assistance Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2002, is amended as follows:

1 The following

section is added:

Confirmed job supplement

56.1 The minister may provide a supplement of up to a maximum of $1 000 to or for a family unit that is eligible for income assistance or hardship assistance if

(

a) a recipient in the family unit obtains confirmed employment that, in the opinion of the minister, will enable the family unit to become independent of income assistance or hardship assistance,

(

b) in the opinion of the minister, the recipient requires transportation, clothing, tools or other employment-related items in order to commence the employment, and

(

c) there are no resources available to the family unit to cover the cost.

Section 81 (1) is amended by adding the following paragraph:

(

e) confirmed job supplements under

section 56.1. — M. COELL, Minister of Human Resources; S. BOND, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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