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Volume 48, No. 7

B.C. Reg. 159/2005

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 5, 2005

B.C. Reg. 159/2005, deposited March 23, 2005, pursuant

to the EMPLOYMENT AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

[Sections 26 (1), (2) (b), (f), (h), (

j) and (4)]. Order in Council 327/2005,

approved and ordered March 18, 2005.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor,

by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective

May 1, 2005, the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation,

B.C. Reg. 265/2002, is amended as set out in the attached schedule.

— S. BRICE, Minister of Human Resources ; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member

of the Executive Council .

Schedule

1 The following

section is added to the Employment and Assistance for

Persons with Disabilities Regulation, B.C. Reg. 265/2002:

Infant health supplement

67.1 The minister may provide the type of health supplement referred to in

section 9 of

Schedule C, in accordance with that section, to or for a dependent child of any of the following:

(

a) a recipient of disability assistance under

Schedule A;

(

b) a recipient of hardship assistance under

Schedule D;

(

c) a person referred to in

section 62 (1) (b);

(

d) a person who was a recipient of disability assistance on the day he or she became 65 years of age.

Schedule C is amended by adding the following section:

Infant formula

9 The minister may provide infant formula under

section 67.1 of this regulation if

(

a) a medical practitioner confirms in writing that

(

i) the dependent child for whom a specialized infant

formula is to be provided has a medical condition and the specialized infant

formula is necessary to treat the medical condition, or

(ii) the dependent child for whom the infant formula

is to be provided is at risk of contracting a disease that is transmissible

through the mother's breast milk,

(

b) in the case of a dependent child described by paragraph

(a) (ii), the dependent child is under 12 months of age, and

(

c) the minister is satisfied that the infant formula

is medically required to treat the medical condition or respond to the risk

referred to in paragraph (a).

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