Section 1 definition of "society" BEFORE amended by BC Reg 211/2015, effective November 28, 2016.
"society" means a society incorporated under the Society Act.
Section 4 (1) (b) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 351/2012, effective March 18, 2013.
(b) each person employed by, or under contract with, the society and who works with or has contact with children, birth parents or prospective adoptive parents.
Section 7 (3) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 64/2021, effective March 11, 2021.
(3) At the time and place set for the hearing, the minister must hear in a summary manner the appeal, and may adjourn the hearing and defer judgement as he or she thinks advisable.
Section 9 (b), (c) and (e) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 351/2012, effective March 18, 2013.
(b) support services provided to birth parents and adoption services provided to prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents must be delivered in a manner that ensures independence of advice and avoids coercion;
(c) support services provided to birth parents must, until the end of the 30 day period referred to in section 19 (1) of the Act, be delivered by a social worker who is not the same person who provides adoption services to the prospective adoptive parents;
(e) the adoption agency must ensure that birth parents, before giving a consent to adoption, have been given an opportunity to be advised by independent legal counsel;
Section 13 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 173/2015, effective September 22, 2015.
Financial statement
13 An adoption agency must, within 90 days after the end of the adoption agency's fiscal year, submit to the Provincial director a financial statement for that fiscal year prepared by a person who is a member, or a partnership whose partners are members, in good standing of The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants or the Certified General Accountants' Association of British Columbia.
[am. B.C. Reg. 350/2005, Sch. 1, s. 1.]
Schedule 2, sections 1 (part) and 3 (part) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 351/2012, effective March 18, 2013.
1 An adoption agency must make available to birth parents, before the granting of an adoption order, the following services:
3 An adoption agency must make available to the adopted person, the birth parents and the adoptive parents, after the granting of an adoption order, the following services: