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1998/99 Legislative Session: 3rd Session, 36th Parliament

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HONOURABLE UJJAL DOSANJH

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR

MULTICULTURALISM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION

BILL 20 – 1998

STATUTE REVISION CORRECTION AND

MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS ACT, 1998

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1 The following revision correction regulations are confirmed and validated and the

amendments made by those regulations are given continuing effect:

B.C. Reg. 169/97;

B.C. Reg. 317/97;

B.C. Reg. 23/98;

B.C. Reg. 130/98.

Family Maintenance Enforcement Act

Section 9 of the Supplement to the Family Maintenance Enforcement Act, R.S.B.C. 1996,

c. 127, is repealed and the following substituted:

Commencement

(1) Sections 1 (b), 3, 4 and 6 come into force on January 1, 1997.

(2) Sections 1 (

a) and (c), 2, 5, 7 and 8 come into force by regulation of the

Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Family Relations Act

Section 9 of the Supplement to the Family Relations Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 128, is

repealed and the following substituted:

Commencement

(1) Section 8 comes into force on January 1, 1997.

(2) Sections 1 to 7 come into force by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in

Council.

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

Section 2 of the Supplement to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 165, is repealed and the following substituted:

Commencement

(1) Section 1 (a), (b), (

d) and (

f) comes into force on January 1, 1997.

(2) Section 1 (c), (

e) and (

g) comes into force by regulation of the Lieutenant

Governor in Council.

Insurance Premium Tax Act

Section 7 of the Insurance Premium Tax Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 232, is amended by

adding the following:

(5) Interest is payable under subsections (3) and (4) at the prescribed annual rate.

Optometrists Act

Section 10 of the Optometrists Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 342, is amended by adding the

following subsection:

(3) Rules, and amendments to the rules, made by the board under this

section do not

come into force until approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Retroactive effect of amendment --

approvals under

section 10 (3) of the Optometrists Act

7 On the coming into force of

section 6 of this Act, all approvals required under

section

10 (3) of the Optometrists Act are deemed to have been required on and after April

21, 1997 and any rules, or amendments to the rules, made by the board on or after

April 21, 1997 are deemed not to have come into force unless and until approved by

the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

Commencement

(1) This Act, except

section 5, comes into force by regulation of the Lieutenant

Governor in Council.

(2) Section 1 (

h) of the Supplement to the Freedom of Information and Protection of

Privacy Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 165, is deemed to have come into force on

April 21, 1997.

(3) When brought into force by regulation, the corrections and amendments made by

this Act, except

section 5, are deemed to have come into force on April 21, 1997

and are retroactive to the extent necessary to give them effect on and after that

date.

Explanatory Notes

SECTION 1: [Validates and continues correcting regulations] confirms and validates

corrections made by regulations under the Statute Revision Act and gives those

corrections continuing effect.

Family Maintenance Enforcement Act

SECTION 2: [Supplement to the Family Maintenance Enforcement Act, re-enacts

section 9] corrects omissions in the preparation of the Supplement to the

Family Maintenance Enforcement Act .

Family Relations Act

SECTION 3: [Supplement to the Family Relations Act, re-enacts

section 9] corrects

omissions in the preparation of the Supplement to the Family Relations Act .

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

SECTION 4: [Supplement to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act,

re-enacts

section 2] corrects omissions in the preparation of the Supplement to

the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act .

Insurance Premium Tax Act

SECTION 5: [Insurance Premium Tax Act, adds

section 7 (5)] consolidates a subsection

inadvertantly nonconsolidated.

Optometrists Act

SECTION 6: [Optometrists Act, adds

section 10 (3)] consolidates and clarifies an approval

requirement that was ambiguous in the original enactment, and provides parallelism

with a similar provision in

section 18 of the Optometrists Act .

SECTION 7: [Retroactivity for

section 6 of this Act] is self explanatory.

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