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Volume 65, No. 10

121/2022

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

May 24, 2022

B.C. Reg. 121/2022 , deposited May 24, 2022, under the FAMILY LAW ACT [sections 245 (1) and 247 (2)] and the COURT RULES ACT [section 1]. Order in Council 272/2022, approved and ordered May 24, 2022.

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

(

a) the Family Law Act Regulation, B.C. Reg. 347/2012, is amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 1, and

(

b) the Provincial Court Family Rules, B.C. Reg. 120/2020, are amended as set out in the attached

Schedule 2.

— D. EBY, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Housing ; N. SIMONS, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule 1

Section 2 of the Family Law Act Regulation, B.C. Reg. 347/2012, is amended in paragraph (

c) by striking out " justice " and in paragraph (

e) by striking out " managers " and substituting " directors ".

2 The following

section is added:

Application respecting early resolution registries

21.1 For the purposes of

section 157 (1) of the Act, filing, by the party who disagrees with a recalculated amount or, if corrected under

section 156, a corrected recalculated amount, of a notice to resolve in Form 1 of the Provincial Court Family Rules as required by rule 10 (

a) constitutes an "application" with respect to a matter in a Provincial Court Registry that is identified in rule 6 of the Provincial Court Family Rules as an early resolution registry.

Section 22 is amended by adding the following subsection:

(3) In the case of a Provincial Court Registry that is identified in rule 6 of the Provincial Court Family Rules as an early resolution registry, the following steps are prescribed for the purposes of

section 157 (3) (

c) of the Act:

(

a) providing a copy of the notice to resolve as required by rule 10 (

b) of the Provincial Court Family Rules;

(

b) participating in a needs assessment under rule 16 as required by rule 10 (c);

(

c) completing a parenting education program under rule 17 as required by rule 10 (d).

4 Forms 3 and 4 are amended by striking out " acknowledgment " wherever it appears and substituting " acknowledgement ".

Schedule 2

1 The Provincial Court Family Rules, B.C. Reg. 120/2020, are amended in Form 6 by adding the following to the end of

Schedule 13:

• make any other order the court considers appropriate .

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