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Volume 51, No. 20

B.C. Reg. 288/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 21, 2008

B.C. Reg. 288/2008 , deposited October 15, 2008, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [Section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M248/2008, dated October 10, 2008.

I, George Abbott, Minister of Health Services, order that effective October 17, 2008, the attached Physical Therapists Regulation is made.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health Services.

PHYSICAL THERAPISTS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

College name

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Restricted activities

Limit or condition on services

Patient relations program

Health profession corporations

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions Act ;

"physical therapy" means the treatment of the human body by physical or mechanical means, by manipulation, massage, exercise, the application of bandages, hydrotherapy and medical electricity, for the therapeutic purpose of maintaining or restoring function that has been impaired by injury or disease.

College name

2 The name "College of Physical Therapists of British Columbia" is the name of the college established under

section 15 (1) of the Act for physical therapy.

Reserved titles

3 The following titles are reserved for exclusive use by registrants:

(

a) physical therapist;

(

b) registered physical therapist;

(

c) physiotherapist;

(

d) registered physiotherapist;

(

e) remedial gymnast;

(

f) registered remedial gymnast.

Scope of practice

4 A registrant may practise physical therapy.

Restricted activities

(1) No person other than a registrant may practise physical therapy.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person employed by and on the premises of a hospital which has been designated by the minister and who is acting under the direction of a medical practitioner.

Limit or condition on services

6 No registrant may prescribe or administer drugs or anaesthetics, or treat a recent fracture of a bone, except under the direction of a medical practitioner.

Patient relations program

7 The college is designated for the purposes of

section 16 (2) (

f) of the Act.

Health profession corporations

Part 4 of the Act applies to physical therapy.

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