B.C. Reg. 129/2009

M90/2009
Deposited March 27, 2009

effective April 1, 2009

Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act

Prescribed Health Care Professions Regulation

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 163/2009, June 4, 2009]

Contents
  Definitions
  Prescribed health care professions

Definitions

1 In this regulation, Act means the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act.

Prescribed health care professions

2 The following classes of persons are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) (i) of the definition of practitioner in section 1 of the Act:

(a) midwives;

(b) nurses practising nursing as nurse practitioners;

(c) optometrists;

(d) pharmacists, for the purposes only of prescribing the following drugs for emergency contraception:

(i)  ethinyl estradiol;

(ii)  norgestrel;

(iii)  progestin.

(e) naturopathic physicians.

[am. B.C. Reg. 163/2009.]

[Provisions of the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, S.B.C. 2003, c. 77, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: sections 1 and 34.1]