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ontario regulation 268/08

made under the

ambulance act

Made: May 28, 2008
Approved: July 23, 2008
Filed: July 30, 2008
Published on e-Laws: July 31, 2008
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: August 16, 2008

Amending O. Reg. 257/00

(General)

1.Subsection 5 (3) of Ontario Regulation 257/00 is amended by striking out “December 31, 2008” in the portion before clause (a) and substituting “December 31, 2011”.

2.(1)Clause 6 (1) (a) of the Regulation is revoked.

(2)Subsection 6 (3) of the Regulation is revoked.

3.Section 12 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

12.(1)The operator of an ambulance service shall ensure that the remains of a dead person are not transported by ambulance unless,

(a)the remains are in a public place and it is in the public interest that the remains be removed;

(b)arrangements are made to ensure that an alternative ambulance is readily available for ambulance services during the time that the remains are being transported; and

(c)no patient is transported in the ambulance at the same time as the remains are transported.

(2)For the purposes of this section, an ambulance crew attending a person may rely on either of the following in determining that the person is dead:

1.The crew is presented with a medical certificate of death, in the form prescribed by the Vital Statistics Act, in respect of the person that appears on its face to be completed and signed in accordance with that Act.

2.The person is obviously dead.

(3)Despite subsection (1), an ambulance may be used to transport the remains of a dead person for the purpose of tissue transplantation on the order of a physician if a physician at the hospital where the tissue is being delivered acknowledges the order.

(4)The ambulance crew attending the remains referred to in subsection(3) shall care for the remains as directed by the physician who ordered the transportation.

(5)Despite subsection(1), an ambulance may continue to be used to transport a patient who was alive when transportation began.

4.This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.

Made by:

George Smitherman

Minister of Health and Long-Term Care

Date made: May 28, 2008.

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