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Volume 57, No. 22

227/2014

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 16, 2014

B.C. Reg. 227/2014 , deposited December 4, 2014, under the MOTOR VEHICLE ACT [section 212 (3)]. Order in Council 669/2014, approved and ordered December 3, 2014.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective January 1, 2015, the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, are amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— T. STONE, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure ; R. COLEMAN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 47.01 of the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, is repealed and the following substituted:

Definition

47.01

(1) In this Division, “official vehicle” means a vehicle that

(

a) is authorized under

section 4.28 to display flashes of red, blue, white or amber light, and

(

b) is displaying flashes of red, blue, white or amber light

(

i) in accordance with any limits or conditions set out in

section 4.28 or specified by the director under

section 4.28 (1) (b),

(ii) while the vehicle is stopped on or on the side of a highway, and

(iii) while the vehicle’s components are being operated, or a member of the vehicle’s crew is working, on or on the side of the highway.

(2) Despite subsection (1), a school bus is not an official vehicle for the purposes of this Division.

Section 47.02 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person driving a motor vehicle on a highway in either direction must drive the motor vehicle at no more than the following rate of speed when approaching or passing an official vehicle:

(a) 70 km/h, if signs on the highway limit the rate of speed to 80 km/h or more;

(b) 40 km/h, if signs on the highway limit the rate of speed to less than 80 km/h;

(

c) the rate of speed indicated on the signs, if signs on the highway limit the rate of speed to less than 40 km/h.

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