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Volume 53, No. 6

B.C. Reg. 82/2010

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 6, 2010

B.C. Reg. 82/2010 , deposited March 25, 2010, pursuant to the PUBLIC HEALTH ACT [Sections 113 and 121]. Order in Council 167/2010, approved and ordered March 25, 2010.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective May 21, 2010, the Health Act Communicable Disease Regulation, B.C. Reg. 4/83, is amended by re-enacting

section 6.3 as follows:

West Nile Virus testing disclosure

6.3

(1) The Provincial Health Officer May direct the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control to disclose relevant personal information identifying the source of blood samples being tested for West Nile Virus at its laboratory to the Canadian Blood Services agency.

(2) The Provincial Health Officer must authorize the disclosure of information in subsection (1) for use only by the Canadian Blood Services agency

(

a) to determine whether it had received a donation of blood from those persons and to suspend distribution of that donated blood pending the results of laboratory analysis, and

(

b) to determine whether it had provided those persons with donated blood.

(3) This

section is repealed May 21, 2011.

— I. CHONG, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport ; C. HANSEN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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