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Certified correct as passed Third Reading on the 17th day of March, 2016
Craig James, Clerk of the House
HONOURABLE MICHELLE STILWELL
MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
AND SOCIAL INNOVATION
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:
1 Section 2 (2) of the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Act, S.B.C. 2002, c. 41, is amended by adding "that the person is in a prescribed class of persons or" after "satisfied".
2 Section 26 (2) is amended by adding the following paragraph:
(p) prescribing classes of persons for the purposes of section 2 (2) [persons with disabilities] by reference to a status or benefit that
(i) is conferred by the government, the government of Canada or an agent of either of those governments, and
(ii) in the opinion of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, evidences a mental or physical impairment at least as severe as that described in section 2 (2) (a) and (b).
3 This Act comes into force by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council.