BILL 8 – 2001 : EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS ACT

2001 Legislative Session: 5th Session, 36th Parliament
THIRD READING

The following electronic version is for informational purposes only.
The printed version remains the official version.

Certified correct as passed Third Reading on the 3rd day of April, 2001
Ian D. Izard, Law Clerk

HONOURABLE CORKY EVANS
MINISTER OF HEALTH AND
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR SENIORS

BILL 8 – 2001

EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS ACT

Contents

Section
1	Prescribing drugs for use for emergency contraception
2	Consequential Amendment

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Prescribing drugs for use for emergency contraception

1 (1) B.C. Reg. 354/2000 has the retroactive effect necessary to make pharmacy a prescribed health care profession on and after October 26, 2000 for the purposes of the definition of "practitioner" in section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act only for the purposes of prescribing for use for emergency contraception the drugs specified in Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation.

(2) B.C. Reg. 355/2000 has the retroactive effect necessary to authorize, on and after October 26, 2000, pharmacists to prescribe the drugs specified in Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation, in accordance with guidelines approved by the council.

(3) A pharmacist does not contravene section 21 (1) (a) of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act by reason only that the pharmacist made a prescription described by paragraph (g.1) of the definition of "practice of pharmacy" in section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act on or after October 26, 2000 and before this Act came into force.

Consequential Amendment

2 Section 1 of the Pharmacists, Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 363, is amended in the definition of "practice of pharmacy" by adding the following paragraph:

(g.1) prescribing, in accordance with guidelines approved by the council, a drug specified in Schedule IV of B.C. Reg. 9/98, the Drug Scheduling Regulation, for use for emergency contraception, .