48/2010

O.C. 102/2010

March 1, 2010

April 1, 2010

Employment and Assistance Act

Child in the Home of a Relative Program Transition Regulation

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 16/2011, February 3, 2011]

Child in home of relative transition

The provisions referring to a child in the home of a relative, or otherwise applying

in relation to such a child or the relative with whom such a child resides, of the

Employment and Assistance Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2002, and of the Employment and

Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation, B.C. Reg. 265/2002, as those

regulations read on March 31, 2010, continue to apply in relation to

a child in the home of a relative who was eligible to receive income assistance

under

section 6 of the Employment and Assistance Regulation, on March 31, 2010,

a child whose application under

section 6 of the Employment and Assistance

Regulation was received on or before March 31, 2010 and approved on or after that date,

and

the family unit of a relative with whom a child referred to in paragraph (

a) or (

b) was residing on March 31, 2010,

until the date the child ceases to be eligible for income assistance under

section 6

of the Employment and Assistance Regulation as it read on March 31, 2010.

Additional audit powers

In this section,

section 34.1 means

section 34.1 of the

Employment and Assistance Regulation, B.C. Reg. 263/2002, as it read immediately before

its repeal on March 31, 2010.

For the purposes of the application of

section 34.1 (1) as it applies under

section

1 of this regulation, on or after the date this

section comes into

force,

the minister may also conduct a review of all records obtained under the

Child, Family and Community Service Act , the

Family and Child Service Act , S.B.C. 1980, c. 11, and the current and

former Adoption Act , pertaining to the persons referred to in

section 34.1 (1) (a) (

i) and (ii), and

the written authorizations under

section 34.1 (2) (

b) must permit the minister

to use and disclose information about a person referred to in

section 34.1 (2) (b) (

i) or (ii) for the purpose of conducting a review under paragraph (

a) of this

subsection.

[en. B.C. Reg. 16/2011.]

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Employment

and Assistance Act , S.B.C. 2002, c. 40,

section

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