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B.C. Reg. 406/82
O.C. 1635/82
Deposited September 7, 1982
This consolidation is current to October 21, 2025.

Hospital District Act

Hospital District Act Regulation

[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 24/2016, April 5, 2016]

Contents
1Prescribed date
2Tax rate relationships
3Limits on amount specified by minister
4Spent
5Tla'amin Nation vote under section 9 (1) of the Hospital District Act
Schedule

Prescribed date

1   The date prescribed for the purposes of section 23 (1) of the Hospital District Act is December 31, except for the 1996 budget which must be submitted by January 31, 1996.

[am. B.C. Regs. 312/87; 544/95.]

Tax rate relationships

2   If the council of a municipality raises a tax under section 26 of the Act, the relationships between tax rates on each property class to the tax rate on Class 1 must be the relationships in the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE
Class of Property Ratio to Class 1 Rate
1 1.0 : 1
2 3.5 : 1
3 1.0 : 1
4 3.4 : 1
5 3.4 : 1
6 2.45 : 1
7 3.0 : 1
8 1.0 : 1
9 1.0 : 1

[en. B.C. Reg. 336/2008, Sch. 7.]

Limits on amount specified by minister

3   For the purpose of section 20 (3) of the Act, the amount to be specified by the minister shall not exceed in the aggregate whichever is the greater of

(a) $200 000, or

(b) the product of the rate set out in Column 2 of the schedule opposite the regional hospital district set out in Column 1 per thousand dollars of the assessed value of land and improvements in the district.

[en. B.C. Reg. 61/85.]

Spent

4   Authority Repealed. [1998-30-84.]

Tla'amin Nation vote under section 9 (1) of the Hospital District Act

5   (1) Despite section 9 (1) of the Hospital District Act, the Tla'amin Nation may participate in a vote under that section by the board of the Powell River Regional Hospital District.

(2) The number of votes to which the Tla'amin Nation is entitled is

(a) the number obtained by dividing the population of the Tla'amin Nation by the voting unit specified in the letters patent for the Powell River Regional Hospital District, or

(b) if the quotient under paragraph (a) is not an integer, the next greater integer to the quotient.

(3) A change in the population of the Tla'amin Nation established by census, for the purposes of subsection (2), takes effect in the year following the year in which that census was taken.

[en. B.C. Reg. 24/2016, Sch. s. 1.]

Schedule

[en. B.C. Reg. 120/89; see 1998-30-84; 14/2009.]

Column 1 Column 2
Regional Hospital District Rates for Section 20 (3) of Act
Alberni-Clayoquot .4676925
Bulkley-Nechako .3400706
Capital .0618850
Cariboo .2052897
Central Coast .0433723
Central Fraser Valley .1044510
Central Kootenay .0317692
Central Okanagan .1575625
Columbia Shuswap .4800350
Comox-Strathacona .1122445
Cowichan Valley .1644235
Dewdney-Alouette .0330258
East Kootenay .0498969
Northern Rockies .0598032
Fraser-Cheam .3420459
Fraser-Fort George .1869025
Greater Vancouver .0356105
Kitimat-Stikine .4271226
Kootenay-Boundary .0523568
Mount Waddington .0519059
Nanaimo .1036486
North Okanagan .0353586
Okanagan-Similkameen .1645235
Peace River .4109541
Powell River .4557523
Skeena-Queen Charlotte .2683779
Sqamish-Lillooet .0373670
Sunshine Coast .0345659
Thompson-Nicola .1262574

[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Hospital District Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 202, sections 20 (3) and 23 (1) and 51]