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Volume 51, No. 20

B.C. Reg. 280/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 21, 2008

B.C. Reg. 280/2008 , deposited October 15, 2008, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [Section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M240/2008, dated October 10, 2008.

I, George Abbott, Minister of Health Services, order that effective October 17, 2008, the attached Massage Therapists Regulation is made.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health Services.

MASSAGE THERAPISTS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

College name

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Restricted activities

Limit or condition on services

Patient relations program

Health profession corporations

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions Act ;

"massage therapy" means the kneading, rubbing or massaging of the human body, whether with or without steam baths, vapour baths, fume baths, electric light baths or other appliances, and hydrotherapy or any similar method taught in schools of massage approved under the Physiotherapists Act , but does not include any form of medical electricity.

College name

2 The name "College of Massage Therapists of British Columbia" is the name of the college established under

section 15 (1) of the Act for massage therapy.

Reserved titles

3 The following titles are reserved for exclusive use by registrants:

(

a) massage therapist;

(

b) registered massage therapist;

(

c) massage practitioner;

(

d) registered massage practitioner.

Scope of practice

4 A registrant may practise massage therapy.

Restricted activities

(1) No person other than a registrant may practise massage therapy.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person

(

a) employed by and on the premises of a hospital which has been designated by the minister, and

(

b) who is acting under the direction of a medical practitioner.

Limit or condition on services

6 No registrant may prescribe or administer drugs or anaesthetics, or treat a recent fracture of a bone.

Patient relations program

7 The college is designated for the purposes of

section 16 (2) (

f) of the Act.

Health profession corporations

Part 4 of the Act applies to massage therapy.

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