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Volume 51, No. 23

B.C. Reg. 338/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 2, 2008

B.C. Reg. 338/2008, deposited November 28, 2008, pursuant to the EMPLOYMENT AND ASSISTANCE ACT [Section 35]. Order in Council 861/2008, approved and ordered November 27, 2008.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective December 2, 2008, the Employment and Assistance Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2002, is amended as set out in the attached Appendix.

— R. COLEMAN, Minister of Housing and Social Development ; S. BOND, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Appendix

1 The Employment and Assistance Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2002, is amended by adding the following section:

Tube feed nutritional supplement

74.01

(1) In this section, "tube feed nutritional supplement" means a liquid nutritional product that is fed to a person via a tube to the stomach or intestines of the person and the pumps, tubes, bags and other medical equipment or supplies that are required to feed the liquid nutritional product to the person.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the minister may provide a tube feed nutritional supplement if the supplement is provided to or for a person in the family unit

(

a) who is a recipient of income assistance under

section 2 [monthly support allowance] , 4 [monthly shelter allowance] , 6 [people receiving room and board] , 7 [people over 65 years of age] , or 9 [people in emergency shelters and transition houses] of

Schedule A,

(

b) who is a dependent child of a recipient referred to in paragraph (a),

(

c) who is a child in the home of a relative,

(

d) who has ceased to be eligible for income assistance, but is eligible to receive a health supplement under

(i)

section 67 (1) (

f) and was receiving a tube feed nutritional supplement on the date the person ceased to be eligible for income assistance, or

(ii)

section 67 (1) (

g) or (

h) and was receiving a tube feed nutritional supplement on the date the family unit ceased to be eligible for income assistance,

(

e) who has ceased to be eligible for income assistance, but is eligible to receive a health supplement under

section 67 (1) (c) (ii) and was receiving a tube feed supplement on the date the person ceased to be eligible for income assistance, or

(

f) another member of which is receiving assistance under

section 8 (2) of

Schedule A.

(3) The minister may provide a tube feed nutritional supplement under this

section if

(

a) a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner or registrant of the College of Dieticians of British Columbia established under the Health Professions Act confirms in writing that the person's primary source of nutrition is through tube feeding,

(

b) the person is not receiving a supplement under

section 73 [diet supplement] or 74 [nutritional supplement] , or a diet, nutritional or tube feed nutritional supplement under

section 2 (3) of

Schedule C, and

(

c) there are no resources available to the person to pay for the tube feed nutritional supplement.

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