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Blood Sample Certificate Regulation

B.C. Reg. 333/83

SECTION	EFFECTIVE DATE
NOTE: Links below go to regulation content as it was prior to the changes made on the effective date. (PIT covers changes made from September 19, 2009 to "current to" date of the regulation.)
Regulation	April 1, 2026
Form 2	November 23, 2012

Regulation BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 128/2025, effective April 1, 2026.

B.C. Reg. 333/83
O.C. 1395/83

Filed August 29, 1983

Motor Vehicle Act

Blood Sample Certificate Regulation

Form of certificate

1 The form and content of certificates to be used for the purpose of section 227 of the Motor Vehicle Act are as set out in the schedule.

Schedule

[am. B.C. Regs. 232/2005, App. s. 11; 343/2012.]

Form 1

Certificate of Taking a Blood Sample

I, ................................................................... of ................................................................................. am a

medical practitioner

registered nurse authorized under an enactment to practise as a registered nurse in British Columbia

certified member of the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologists

certified laboratory assistant member of the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologists

......................................., a person employed by a hospital who in the normal course of my employment takes blood samples

AND I DO HEREBY CERTIFY:

THAT, on ........................................[date] at ...................[time] at ..................................................., Province of British Columbia

pursuant to a demand made under section 225 (1) of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996

pursuant to section 225 (2) of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996

I did take a sample of the blood of a person identified to me as ................................................. . I marked the blood specimen container containing the sample of blood with the inscription

I gave the blood specimen container to ...................................................................

DATED ........................................[day, month, year] at ......................................................in the Province of British Columbia.

...................................................................
Taker

Form 2

Certificate of Medical Practitioner or Nurse Practitioner

I, ..................................................................., medical practitioner/nurse practitioner (circle one only), observed a person identified to me as ................................................................................ at ............................................................[place] on ........................................[day, month, year] at...................................................[time], at which time I formed the opinion that ......................................................................................................... was incapable due to ............................................................................................................................................. of comprehending the nature of a demand under section 225 (1) of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 318.

DATED ........................................[day, month, year] at ...................................................... in the Province of British Columbia.

...................................................................................
Medical Practitioner/Nurse Practitioner

Form 3

Certificate of Analysis of a Blood Sample

I, ..................................................................., being a person approved by order of the Attorney General of British Columbia to analyze a blood sample taken under section 225 of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996,

DO HEREBY CERTIFY:

THAT, on ........................................[day, month, year] at .............................. there was received by me .................................. which bore the following inscription:

That I marked the said ..................................... with the inscription:

That I performed an analysis on the blood .................. within the said ............................................ using a method approved as suitable for the purposes of section 225 of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996 by order of the Attorney General of British Columbia, to wit

That I found the blood to contain .............. milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.

DATED ........................................[day, month, year] at ...................................................... in the Province of British Columbia.

...................................................................
Analyst

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 318, section 227]

Form 2 of the Schedule BEFORE re-enacted by BC Reg 343/2012, effective November 23, 2012.

Form 2

Certificate of Medical Practitioner

I, ..................................................................., medical practitioner, observed a person identified to me as ................................................................... at ............................................................[place] on ........................................[day, month, year] at ..............................[time] at which time I formed the opinion that .................................................. was incapable, due to

of comprehending the nature of a demand under section 225 (1) of the Motor Vehicle Act, R.S.B.C. 1996.

DATED ........................................[day, month, year] at ...................................................... in the Province of British Columbia.

...................................................................
Medical Practitioner