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Volume 59, No. 10

129/2016

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

June 14, 2016

B.C. Reg. 129/2016 , deposited June 6, 2016, under the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [section 12 (2) (

c) and (d)]. Ministerial Order M203/2016, dated June 6, 2016.

I, Terry Lake, Minister of Health, order that, effective June 6, 2016, the Medical Practitioners Regulation, B.C. Reg. 416/2008, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— T. LAKE, Minister of Health .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Medical Practitioners Regulation, B.C. Reg. 416/2008, is amended

(

a) by adding the following definition:

“medical assistance in dying” means the following:

(

a) the administration of a substance

(

i) by a medical practitioner to a person who requests the substance, and

(ii) that is intended to cause the death of the person who requested the substance;

(

b) the prescription or provision of a substance

(

i) by a medical practitioner to a person who requests the substance, and

(ii) that the person who requested the substance may administer to himself or herself for the purpose of causing his or her own death; , and

(

b) in the definition of “medicine” by striking out “ and ” at the end of paragraph (b), adding “ and ” to the end of paragraph (

c) and by adding the following paragraph:

(

d) medical assistance in dying; .

Section 5 is amended by renumbering the

section as subsection (1) and by adding the following subsection:

(2) A registrant may provide the service of medical assistance in dying only in accordance with the standards, limits and conditions established by the board for the provision of the service of medical assistance in dying.

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