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Volume 63, No. 18

231/2020

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 22, 2020

B.C. Reg. 231/2020 , deposited September 17, 2020, under the TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER PROTECTION ACT [sections 82 and 86]. Order in Council 513/2020, approved and ordered September 17, 2020.

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

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) sections 11 to 15, 16 (

c) and (d), 17 (

c) and (d), 20, 21, 26 (2), 28 (2),

29 (1) (b), 33 (1) (

a) and (b), 38 (2), 41 (2), 58, 59 and 61 of the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act , S.B.C. 2018, c. 45, are brought into force,

(

b) effective December 15, 2020,

section 10 of the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act , S.B.C. 2018, c. 45, is brought into force, and

(

c) effective December 15, 2020, the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Regulation,

B.C. Reg. 158/2019, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— H. BAINS, Minister of Labour ; S. SIMPSON, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Regulation, B.C. Reg. 158/2019, is amended

by adding the following section:

Prescribed classes of employers for which certificate of registration not required

2.1 For the purposes of

section 10 (2) of the Act, the following classes of employers

are prescribed:

(

a) employers who recruit foreign nationals who, under

section 186 of the Immigration

and Refugee Protection Regulations (Canada), may work in Canada without a work permit;

(

b) employers who recruit foreign nationals for whom an officer is not required

to make a determination under

section 203 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection

Regulations (Canada), not including those employers who recruit foreign nationals

to perform the work of a caregiver through

(

i) the Home Child Care Provider Pilot Project or Home Support Worker Pilot Project

established under

section 205 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

(Canada), or

(ii) any program established under

section 205 of the Immigration and Refugee

Protection Regulations (Canada) that results from, and is significantly similar to,

either pilot project referred to in subparagraph (

i) of this paragraph.

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