B.C. Reg. 176/2009, deposited July 17, 2009, pursuant to the PUBLIC HEALTH ACT [Sections 121 and 113]. Order in Council 356/2009, approved and ordered July 16, 2009.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Health Act Communicable Disease Regulation, B.C. Reg. 4/83, is amended by re-enacting section 6.3 as follows:

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 only authorize the disclosure of information in subsection (1) for use by the Canadian Blood Services agency

(i) 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

(ii) to determine whether it had provided those persons with donated blood.

(3) This section is repealed May 21, 2010.

— I. CHONG, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport; C. HANSEN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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