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Volume 55, No. 21

305/2012

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 23, 2012

B.C. Reg. 305/2012 , deposited October 16, 2012, pursuant to the WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT [section 229 (3)]. Order in Council 692/2012, approved and ordered October 15, 2012.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

section 1.1 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 296/97, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— P. BELL, Minister for Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour ; R. COLEMAN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 1.1 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 296/97, is amended

(

a) by renumbering the

section as

section 1.1 (1),

(

b) in subsection (1) by adding the following definition:

"resource road" means a road or portion of a road on Crown land, and includes a bridge, culvert, ford or other structure or work associated with the road, but does not include a highway within the meaning of the Transportation Act , , and

(

c) by adding the following subsections:

(2) Subject to subsection (3), in this Regulation, "workplace" does not include a resource road.

(3) A portion of a resource road is a workplace during any period within which the portion is being built, maintained, repaired, rehabilitated, stabilized, upgraded, removed or deactivated.

(4) Although a resource road does not constitute a workplace for the purposes of this Regulation, other than in one of the limited circumstances referred to in subsection (3), a reference to a workplace in this Regulation continues to include a thing or place that constitutes a workplace even though that thing, or an activity or the result of an activity initiated or carried out at that place, is in whole or in part on a resource road.

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