Section 1 definitions of "contact", "food handler," "modified isolation" and "strict isolation" BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
"contact" means a person who has been or is in association with an infected person or animal, or with a contaminated environment, and has had an opportunity of acquiring the infection;
"food handler" means a person engaged in the preparation, manufacture, storage, serving or sale of food or drink where the food or drink itself is handled, but does not include a person who only handles completely packaged food or drink;
"modified isolation" means
"strict isolation" means the complete segregation, in a room used for no other purpose, of an infected person from all persons except
Section 2 (4) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
(4) The medical health officer shall forward a report received under this section, within 7 days of receiving it, to the Provincial health officer, together with any further information requested by the Provincial health officer.
Section 2 (6) was added by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
Section 6.1 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
Voluntary testing
6.1 Where a person voluntarily submits himself to testing or examination for a communicable disease and, as a result of that voluntary test, another person is required to make a report to the medical health officer under section 2 or 3, no person shall disclose or permit to be disclosed to any person other than the medical health officer information contained in the report or the results of an examination or test, without the written consent of the person who so volunteered.
[en. B.C. Reg. 8/86.]
Section 6.2 (2) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
(2) Despite sections 4 (5) and 6.1,
(a) a physician who reasonably believes that another person may be at risk of harm from an index patient may provide any relevant information to the medical health officer, and
(b) on receiving information from a physician under paragraph (a), the medical health officer may
(i) request further relevant information from the physician,
(ii) require the index patient to undergo further examination and to provide further relevant information, and
(iii) disclose to any person who may be at risk of harm any relevant information the medical health officer feels necessary to address the harm or to prevent further harm.
Section 6.3 BEFORE re-enacted by BC Reg 82/2010 effective May 21, 2010.
West Nile Virus testing disclosure
6.3 (1) The Provincial Health Officer may direct the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control to disclose relevant personal information identifying the source of blood samples being tested for West Nile Virus at its laboratory to the Canadian Blood Services agency.
(2) The Provincial Health Officer must authorize the disclosure of information in subsection (1) for use only by the Canadian Blood Services agency
(a) to determine whether it had received a donation of blood from those persons and to suspend distribution of that donated blood pending the results of laboratory analysis, and
(b) to determine whether it had provided those persons with donated blood.
(3) This section is repealed May 21, 2010.
[en. B.C. Reg. 176/2009.]
Section 6.3 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 92/2011 effective May 19, 2011.
West Nile Virus testing disclosure
6.3 (1) The Provincial Health Officer may direct the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control to disclose relevant personal information identifying the source of blood samples being tested for West Nile Virus at its laboratory to the Canadian Blood Services agency.
(2) The Provincial Health Officer must authorize the disclosure of information in subsection (1) for use only by the Canadian Blood Services agency
(a) to determine whether it had received a donation of blood from those persons and to suspend distribution of that donated blood pending the results of laboratory analysis, and
(b) to determine whether it had provided those persons with donated blood.
(3) This section is repealed May 21, 2011.
[en. B.C. Reg. 82/2010.]
Section 10 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
Posting of notice
10 (1) The medical health officer may sign and post the notice, set out in Schedule C, in a conspicuous place at the entrance to any premises where a person under quarantine is living.
(2) and (3) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 49/2009, s. 2 (b).]
(4) In the event that the posted notice is removed, concealed or mutilated, the occupant of the premises on which the notice was posted shall, without delay, notify the medical health officer.
[am. B.C. Reg. 49/2009, s. 2 (b).]
Section 11 (a) BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
(a) any article from premises where a person under isolation or quarantine is living, or
Section 11 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 216/2011 effective December 2, 2011.
Removal of articles from quarantine
11 No person shall, without the written consent of the medical health officer, remove or permit to be removed
(a) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 330/2010, s. 3.]
(b) any milk or milk products from a farm or dairy where a person, suffering from or a carrier of salmonellosis or campylobacteriosis, or other reportable communicable disease which may be spread by raw milk, is living, unless the milk or milk products are to be pasteurized before distribution or use.
[am. B.C. Reg. 330/2010, s. 3.]
Section 16 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 216/2011 effective December 2, 2011.
Valid transit certificate
16 (1) No person shall ship a dead body by rail, air, ship or truck without a valid transit certificate.
(2) A properly completed burial permit, issued under the Vital Statistics Act, attached to the head of the box containing the casket constitutes a valid transit certificate.
Section 17(2) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 380/2012 effective March 18, 2013.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if both parents or, if the father is not available, the mother give a written statement directing that subsection (1) not be followed in the case of their baby.
Section 17(3)(part) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 380/2012 effective March 18, 2013.
(3) Before accepting a written statement under subsection (2), the physician or other qualified person assisting at the birth must inform the parents, or mother, as the case may be,
Schedule C BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
Notice of Quarantine
[Section 10 (1)]
Communicable Disease Quarantine
All persons within these premises are under quarantine. No one shall enter, leave or remove any article from these premises without the written consent of the medical health officer. Any person removing this notice without permission from the medical health officer is liable to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both a fine and imprisonment, and each day the offence continues constitutes a separate offence.
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Medical Health Officer
Schedule E BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 330/2010 effective November 19, 2010.
[Section 20]
[en. B.C. Reg. 84/97; am. B.C. Regs. 209/97; 281/2004.]
List of Designated Places
1 Any hospital as defined in section 1 of the Hospital Act is designated as a place under section 11 (4) (e) of the Health Act for the purposes of detaining a person with a reportable communicable disease.
2 The following sites are designated as places under section 11 (4) (e) of the Health Act for the purpose of detaining a male person with tuberculosis:
Cells AS.01 and AS.02
North Fraser Pretrial Centre
1451 Kingsway Avenue
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
V3C 1S2;
Medical Isolation Unit, Rooms 225, 226, 227
Surrey Pretrial Services Centre
14323 — 57th Avenue
Surrey, British Columbia
V3X 1B1
3 The following site is designated as a place under section 11 (4) (e) of the Health Act for the purpose of detaining a female person with tuberculosis:
Segregation 1, Rooms 201, 202, 203
Surrey Pretrial Services Centre
14323 — 57th Avenue
Surrey, British Columbia
V3X 1B1