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Volume 60, No. 18

178/2017

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 10, 2017

B.C. Reg. 178/2017 , deposited September 30, 2017, under the CORRECTION ACT [section 33 (2)]. Order in Council 377/2017, approved and ordered September 29, 2017.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective October 1, 2017, the Correction Act Regulation, B.C. Reg. 58/2005, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— M. FARNWORTH, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General ; K. CONROY, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 1 of the Correction Act Regulation, B.C. Reg. 58/2005, is amended

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a) by repealing the definition of “health care professional” and substituting the following:

“health care professional” means a person employed by the Provincial Health Services Authority who is

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a) a registrant as defined in the Health Professions Act , or

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b) a person designated by the Provincial Health Services Authority to provide health care services in a correctional centre; , and

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b) by adding the following definition:

“Provincial Health Services Authority” means the Provincial Health Services Authority, a society under the Societies Act ; .

Section 39 is repealed and the following substituted:

Medical fitness of inmate

(1) For the purposes of this regulation, the person in charge must review the following information any time it is provided by a health care professional:

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a) information relating to an inmate’s state of health;

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b) information relating to an inmate’s suitability for a program established under

section 38.

(2) An inmate may be transferred to another correctional centre only if

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a) the person in charge first consults a health care professional about the inmates’s medical fitness for transfer, and

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b) the health care professional advises the person in charge that the inmate is medically fit for transfer.

(3) When an inmate is to be released from custody, the person in charge must consult a health care professional about the inmate’s state of health.

(4) If the health care professional consulted under subsection (3) advises the person in charge that the inmate suffers from an acute or dangerous illness, the person in charge must take reasonable steps to facilitate the inmate’s access to treatment, if any, available in the community at the time of release.

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