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Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project Regulations

made under subsection 307(1) of the

Motor Vehicle Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 293

O.I.C. 2025-205 (effective July 10, 2025), N.S. Reg. 129/2025

Table of Contents

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Pilot project

Parking in designated lot

Proof of attending healthcare facility

Penalty

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project

Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“designated parking lot” means a vehicle parking area owned, occupied or operated

by a health authority to serve any of the following healthcare facilities:

(

i) Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre,

(ii) IWK Health Centre,

(iii) a healthcare facility designated by the Minister, where the vehicle

parking area is clearly identified as a designated parking lot to which

these regulations apply by signage at all entrances to the vehicle

parking area;

“health authority” means a health authority as defined in the Health Authorities

Act ;

“healthcare facility” means a facility owned, occupied or operated by a health

authority;

“park” means to leave a vehicle standing, whether occupied or not.

Pilot project

3 The Governor in Council hereby authorizes a pilot project, while these regulations are in

force, for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of a significant monetary fine in

preventing persons from parking in designated parking lots when not attending a

healthcare facility, as identified in

Section 4.

Parking in designated lot

(1) A person must not park in a health authority’s designated parking lot unless they

are attending a healthcare facility served by the designated parking lot.

(2) A person is considered to be attending a health authority’s healthcare facility under

subsection (1) if they are attending the healthcare facility as 1 of the following

persons on the date that they park in the designated lot:

(

a) a patient of the health authority;

(

b) a visitor to a patient of the health authority;

(

c) a member of the medical, dental or scientific staff of the health authority;

(

d) an employee of the health authority;

(

e) a volunteer of the health authority;

(

f) a service provider or prospective service provider of the health authority, or

the service provider’s employees;

(

g) a person having other business with the health authority.

Proof of attending healthcare facility

5 A person may demonstrate that they parked in a health authority’s designated parking lot

to attend a healthcare facility by producing any of the following documents to an

employee or agent of the health authority on request:

(

a) a valid health authority personnel identification document issued to them by

a health authority;

(

b) a document provided to them by the health authority to demonstrate their

attendance at the healthcare facility on the day that they parked in the

designated parking lot.

Penalty

6 The penalty for a violation of

Section 4 of these regulations is a fine of $500.00.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project

Regulations

N.S. Reg.

129/2025

Motor Vehicle Act

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information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project Regulations made

under the Motor Vehicle Act includes all of the

following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

129/2025

Jul 10, 2025

date specified

Jul 25, 2025

The following regulations are not

yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

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