B.C. Reg. 223/2004, deposited May 21, 2004, pursuant to the HEALTH ACT [Section 16 (2) (l)] and the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT [Section 33 (d)]. Order in Council 505/2004, approved and ordered May 20, 2004.

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 adding the following section:

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(3) Unless earlier repealed, this section is repealed one year after it comes into force.

— C. HANSEN, Minister of Health Services; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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