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Volume 48, No. 6

B.C. Reg. 143/2005

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

March 22, 2005

B.C. Reg. 143/2005, deposited March 18, 2005, pursuant

to the INSURANCE PREMIUM TAX ACT [Sections 1 and 41] and

the TAXATION STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 2005 [Section 49]. Order

in Council 249/2005, approved and ordered March 17, 2005.

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, 1997,

(

a) the Exclusion Regulation, B.C. Reg. 89/58, is repealed,

and

(

b) the following regulation is made:

APPROVED PLAN REGULATION

Approved medical services and health care plans

1 For the purposes of the definition of "taxable

premium" in

section 1 of the Insurance Premium Tax Act , a medical services

or health care plan that meets the following criteria is approved:

(

a) the plan is established and managed by an insurance company or an extraprovincial insurance corporation that

(

i) is authorized to carry on insurance business under

the Financial Institutions Act , and

(ii) is a non-profit corporation;

(

b) the plan provides for the payment of benefits directly to one or more of the following:

(

i) a person entitled to practice a designated health

profession under the Health Professions Act ;

(ii) a chiropractor entitled to practice under the Chiropractors

Act ;

(iii) a dentist entitled to practice under the Dentists

Act ;

(iv) a medical practitioner;

(

v) a registered nurse entitled to practice under the

Nurses (Registered) Act ;

(vi) an optometrist entitled to practice under the Optometrists

Act ;

(vii) a podiatrist entitled to practice under the Podiatrists

Act .

— C. HANSEN, Minister

of Finance ; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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