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Volume 56, No. 6

147/2013

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 9, 2013

B.C. Reg. 147/2013 , deposited March 27, 2013, pursuant to the MEDICARE PROTECTION ACT [sections 1 and 51 (2) (p)]. Order in Council 189/2013, approved and ordered March 27, 2013.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— M. MACDIARMID, Minister of Health ; N. LETNICK, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The Medical and Health Care Services Regulation, B.C. Reg. 426/97, is amended by adding the following section:

Vacation absence for 7 months

3.1

(1) This

section applies to a person who is absent from British Columbia for vacation purposes only.

(2) A person who is absent from British Columbia for not more than 7 months in a calendar year is deemed to be a resident for the purposes of the definition if all of the following conditions are met:

(

a) the person, before any absence of more than 6 months within the current calendar year, gives notice to the commission that the person intends to be absent for up to an additional month;

(

b) the person does not establish residency outside British Columbia;

(

c) the person meets the criteria under paragraphs (

a) and (

b) of the definition.

(3) A child of a deemed resident under subsection (2) who accompanies that deemed resident is also deemed to be a resident for the purposes of the definition if, at the time of leaving British Columbia, the child meets the criteria under subsection (2) (

b) and (c).

(4) Notice under subsection (2) must be given in the form and manner required by the commission.

Section 4 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) A person who is deemed to be a resident under

section 3.1 for the purposes of a calendar year is not eligible to be deemed a resident under subsection (1) of this

section for either that calendar year or the calendar year immediately following that calendar year.

Section 5 (1) is amended by striking out “

section 3 or 4, ” and substituting “

section 3, 3.1 or 4, ”.

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