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2001 Legislative Session: 5th Session, 36th
Parliament
THIRD READING
The following electronic version is for
informational purposes only.
The printed version remains the official
version.
Certified correct as passed Third Reading on the 3rd day of
April, 2001
Ian D. Izard, Law Clerk
HONOURABLE CORKY EVANS
MINISTER OF HEALTH AND
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR
SENIORS
BILL 8 – 2001
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS ACT
Contents
Section
Prescribing drugs for use for emergency contraception
Consequential Amendment
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly
of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:
Prescribing drugs for use for emergency contraception
(1) B.C. Reg. 354/2000 has the retroactive effect necessary to make pharmacy a prescribed health care profession on and after October 26, 2000 for the purposes of the definition of "practitioner" in
section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act only for the purposes of prescribing for use for emergency contraception the drugs specified in
Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation.
(2) B.C. Reg. 355/2000 has the retroactive effect necessary to authorize, on and after October 26, 2000, pharmacists to prescribe the drugs specified in
Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation, in accordance with guidelines approved by the council.
(3) A pharmacist does not contravene
section 21 (1) (
a) of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act by reason only that the pharmacist made a prescription described by paragraph (g.1) of the definition of "practice of pharmacy" in
section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act on or after October 26, 2000 and before this Act came into force.
Consequential Amendment
Section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 363, is amended in the definition of "practice of pharmacy" by adding the following paragraph:
(g.1) prescribing, in accordance with guidelines approved by the council, a drug specified in
Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation, for use for emergency contraception, .
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