Section 1 definitions of "health services" and "title" BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
"health services" means services that
(a) are within the scope of practice that a registrant may provide under the Health Professions Act, and
(b) are provided by the registrant in accordance with any prohibitions, limits or conditions imposed on the registrant under that Act;
"title" means a title that a registrant may, under the Health Professions Act, use in the course of practising a designated health profession within the meaning of that Act;
Section 1 definition of "licensee" was added by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
Section 1 definition of "registrant" BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
"registrant" means a registrant within the meaning of the Health Professions Act who is authorized to use a title listed in section 1 (1) of Schedule 1 to this regulation;
Section 6 (c) BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 328/2021, effective September 1, 2023.
(c) is within a class of persons who, under Schedule 2, may apply for a grant of access, and
Section 6 (b) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(b) is a registrant or device provider agent, or will be acting as an on-behalf-of user, and
Section 7 (2) (b) (i) and (ii) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(i) under the Health Professions Act or the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act, or
(ii) by a body that regulates a health profession in another jurisdiction;
Section 8 (2) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(2) The minister may refuse to issue a grant of access to a person as an on-behalf-of user if the person is otherwise eligible to hold a grant of access as a registrant or device provider agent.
Section 12 (2) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(2) The minister may make exceptions to section 11 (3) (b) for the purpose of permitting grant holders who are registrants to access PharmaNet while outside of a location that is the subject of a PharmaNet access agreement.
Section 23 (1) (a) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(a) under the Health Professions Act, the Pharmacy Operations and Drug Scheduling Act or a similar enactment in another jurisdiction,
Section 31 (c) BEFORE repeaaled by BC Reg 328/2021, effective September 1, 2023.
(c) a person who is a pre-existing user within the meaning of section 38 [transitional definitions].
Part 5 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 328/2021, effective September 1, 2023.
Definitions
38 In this Part:
"applications (end date)" means the date established under section 1 (3) of Schedule 2 as the date by which a registrant must apply for a grant of access;
"applications (start date)" means the date established under section 1 (2) (b) of Schedule 2 as the date as of which registrant may apply for a grant of access;
"pre-existing user" means a person who was authorized, on the transition date, to access PharmaNet under section 3 or 18 of the Information Management Regulation, B.C. Reg. 74/2015, as those sections read immediately before the transition date;
"registrant on-behalf-of user" means a person who
(a) holds a grant of access as an on-behalf-of user, and
(b) is a member of a class of registrants with respect to whom the applications (start date) has passed;
"transition date" means the date on which this section came into force.
Transition — pre-existing users
39 (1) Despite section 3 [who may access PharmaNet], a pre-existing user may continue to access PharmaNet on and after the transition date, subject to the following:
(a) any suspension of the user's access;
(b) the limits and conditions, if any, to which the user was subject as of the transition date or, if applicable, as varied after that date;
(c) the limits that apply under Schedule 1 as if the user had been issued a grant of access on or after the transition date.
(2) A pre-existing user's authority under this section to access PharmaNet ends on the earliest of the following dates that applies:
(a) the date the user is prohibited from accessing PharmaNet under section 24 (2) (e) [after a hearing];
(b) if the user is eligible to hold a grant of access as a registrant and
(i) applies for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the user's class, the date that the minister issues or refuses to issue the grant, or
(ii) does not apply for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the user's class, immediately after that date;
(c) if the user is eligible to hold a grant of access as a device provider agent and
(i) applies for a grant of access on or before August 31, 2023, the date that the minister issues or refuses to issue the grant, or
(ii) does not apply for a grant of access on or before August 31, 2023, on September 1, 2023;
(d) if the user is eligible to hold a grant of access only as an on-behalf-of user and
(i) applies for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the class to which the user's principal belongs, the date that the minister issues or refuses to issue the grant, or
(ii) does not apply for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the class to which the user's principal belongs, immediately after that date.
(3) If a pre-existing user has more than one principal and those principals are registrants who belong to different classes, the applications (end date) for the purposes of subsection (2) (d) is that which applies with respect to the principal belonging to the class that has the latest applications (end date) of all of the classes to which the user's principals belong.
Transition — registrant on-behalf-of users
40 Unless the minister permits otherwise, a registrant on-behalf-of user's grant of access as an on-behalf-of user is deemed to be revoked on the earliest of the following dates that applies:
(a) if the user applies for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the user's class, the date that the minister issues or refuses to issue the grant;
(b) if the user does not apply for a grant of access on or before the applications (end date) that applies to members of the user's class, immediately after that date.
Transition — access from locations without PharmaNet access agreement
41 (1) Despite section 11 (3) (b) [limits on grant of access], a person may access PharmaNet from any location from which the person is authorized by the minister to access PharmaNet.
(2) A person's authority under this section to access PharmaNet from any authorized location ends on the earliest of the following dates:
(a) a date specified by the minister for the purposes of this section;
(b) the date on which a PharmaNet access agreement is made that applies to the location from which that person may access PharmaNet;
Schedule 1 (1) (part), (2) (part), (3) and (4) (part) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(1) For the purposes of the definition of "registrant", the person must be authorized to use one of the following titles:
(2) A registrant who holds a grant may access PharmaNet only in respect of a person to whom the registrant
(3) Subject to subsection (4), a registrant who holds a grant may access a person's medical history only.
(4) A registrant who holds a grant and is authorized to use the title
Schedule 1 (1) (c) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
Schedule 1 (2) (b) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.
(b) has directly provided health services, but only to the extent necessary to provide advice or assistance, with respect to those health services, to another registrant who is directly providing health services to that person.
Schedule 2 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 328/2021, effective September 1, 2023.
(section 6 and Part 5)
Registrants
1 (1) In this section, "pre-existing user" has the same meaning as in section 38 of the regulation.
(2) For the purposes of section 6 (c) [eligibility for grant of access] of the regulation,
(a) a pre-existing user may apply for a grant of access as a registrant at any time, and
(b) a person who is not a pre-existing user may apply for a grant of access as a registrant on or after the date referred to in column 2 of the table below opposite the title that the person is authorized to use.
(3) For the purposes of sections 39 (2) and 40 [applications (end date)] of the regulation, a pre-existing user must apply for a grant of access on or before the date set out in column 3 of the table below opposite the title that the person is authorized to use.
| Item | Column 1 Title | Column 2 Applications (Start Date) | Column 3 Applications (End Date) |
| 1 | Pharmacy technician | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2022 |
| 2 | Nurse practitioner | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 |
| 3 | Registered nurse | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 |
| 4 | Registered psychiatric nurse | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 |
| 5 | Licensed practical nurse | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 |
| 6 | Midwife | February 1, 2022 | April 30, 2023 |
| 7 | Pharmacist | March 1, 2022 | April 30, 2022 |
| 8 | Dentist | June 1, 2022 | June 30, 2022 |
| 9 | Podiatrist | June 1, 2022 | June 15, 2022 |
| 10 | Naturopathic physician | June 16, 2022 | June 30, 2022 |
| 11 | Medical practitioner | April 1, 2023 | August 15, 2023 |
| 12 | Optometrist | August 16, 2023 | August 31, 2023 |