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Hospital Insurance Regulations

made under

Section 17 of the

Health Services and Insurance Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 197

N.S. Reg. 11/1958 (December 1, 1958)

amended to O.I.C. 2023-45 (effective February 7, 2023), N.S. Reg. 33/2023

Table of Contents

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Interpretation

Insured services - general

Insured services outside the Province

Payments to hospitals in the Province other than federal hospitals

Payments to federal hospitals in the Province

Standard control

Schedule A - Drugs, Biologicals and Related Preparations

Interpretation

1 In these regulations

(

a) Act means the Health Services and Insurance Act ;

Government of Nova Scotia under the Act;

(

c) board means board of directors, governors, trustees, commission or other

governing body or authority of a hospital;

(

d) Commission means the Health Services and Insurance Commission;

(

e) federal hospital means a hospital that is owned or operated by Canada;

(ee) fiscal year means the period commencing on April 1 and ending on March

31, with the exception of the period beginning January 1, 1977 and ending

on March 31, 1978 which shall be deemed to be a fiscal year;

(eee) Halifax Metropolitan Hospitals means Victoria General Hospital, Grace

Maternity Hospital, Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children, Camp Hill

Medical Centre, Dartmouth General Hospital, the Nova Scotia

Rehabilitation Centre and Point Pleasant Lodge;

(

f) hospital region or region means an area of the Province as designated from

time to time by the Commission;

(

g) in-patient means a person admitted to and assigned to a bed in a hospital on

the application of a duly qualified medical practitioner;

(

h) in-patient services means any or all of the following services to an

in-patient in a hospital:

(

i) accommodation and meals at the standard ward level,

(ii) necessary nursing services,

(iii) laboratory, radiological and other diagnostic procedures, together

with the necessary

interpretations for the purpose of maintaining

health, preventing disease and assisting in the diagnosis and

treatment of any injury, illness or disability,

(iv) drugs, biologicals and related preparations as specified in

Schedule

A to these regulations, when administered in a hospital,

(

v) use of operating room, case room and anaesthetic facilities

including necessary equipment and supplies,

(vi) routine surgical supplies,

(vii) use of radiotherapy facilities where available,

(viii) use of physiotherapy facilities where available,

(ix) services rendered by persons who receive remuneration therefor

from the hospital,

(

x) the administration in a hospital of blood therapeutic blood fractions;

(

i) out-patient means a person other than an in-patient, who receives services at

a hospital;

(

j) out-patient services means all of the following services provided to out-patients:

(

i) laboratory examinations, from time to time specified by the

Commission, together with the necessary

interpretations thereof,

(ii) electroencephalographic examinations and the

interpretations

thereof,

(iii) diagnostic procedures involving the use of radioactive isotopes, and

the

interpretations thereof,

(iv) use of radiotherapy facilities, where available, for the treatment of

malignancy,

(

v) use of physiotherapy facilities where available,

(vi) necessary nursing services,

(vii) radiological examinations, from time to time specified by the

Commission, together with the necessary

interpretations, and

(viii) when used for emergency diagnosis and treatment, within 48 hours

after an accident,

(

A) all necessary laboratory and radiological diagnostic procedures

and electrocardiograms together with the necessary

interpretations for the purpose of assisting in the emergency

diagnosis and treatment,

(

B) use of operating room and anaesthetic facilities including the

necessary equipment and supplies,

(

C) routine surgical supplies,

(

D) drugs, biologicals and related preparations as specified in

Schedule A to these regulations, when administered in the

hospital,

(

E) necessary meals at the standard ward level,

(

F) necessary nursing services,

(ix) services, other than medical services, provided by the Cancer

Treatment and Research Foundation of Nova Scotia,

(

x) the administration in the hospital of blood or therapeutic blood

protein fractions,

(xi) hospital services in connection with the following minor medical

and surgical procedures:

(

A) any procedure involving the cutting of tissue, and the

insertion and removal of sutures,

(

B) the application and removal of casts (casts to be restricted to

Plaster of Paris or similar hard material),

(

C) surgical procedures requiring special aseptic technique,

(

D) treatment of haemorrhage,

(

E) treatment of dislocations and fractures,

(

F) any procedure done under general anaesthesia (except dental

extractions on patients 16 years of age or over),

(

G) search for or removal of foreign bodies,

(

H) taking of cytological smear material for suspected carcinoma,

(

I) injections of haemorrhoids,

(

J) nerve block,

(

K) electroconvulsive therapy,

(

L) aspiration or injection of joint cavities, bursae, cysts, thorax,

abdomen, hydrocoele or other cavities,

(

M) treatment of poisoning,

(

N) certain endoscopic procedures (bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy,

gastroscopy, cystoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, proctoscopy),

(

O) dilatation of strictures,

(

P) catheterization,

(

Q) transfusions,

(

R) spinal punctures,

(

S) dental extractions under general anaesthesia, 15 years of age

and under,

(xii) drugs, biologicals and related preparations as specified in

Schedule

A to these regulations which are necessarily incidental to the

performance of the procedures listed in subclause (xi) of this clause,

(xiii) hospital services, where available, including necessary meals, in

connection with a day patient care clinic for the necessary training

and instruction of diabetics,

(xiv) haemodialysis,

(xv) ultrasonic diagnostic procedures and the

interpretation thereof,

(xvi) the non-medical component (excluding drugs, biologicals and

related preparations) of all other general diagnostic and treatment

procedures (excluding dental procedures) to the extent that the

hospital can provide the same,

(xvii) radiotherapy for non-malignant conditions,

[Please note: subclause 1(j)(xviii) is missing because the number was never used.]

(xix) subject to the Hospitals Act, psychiatric services which are not

medical services,

(xx) services other than medical services provided by and within the

Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Clinic,

(xxi) home parenteral nutrition,

(xxii) equipment for the treatment of erythromelalgia and the servicing of

such equipment when such equipment and servicing is provided by

or through any approved hospital,

(xxiii) continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis,

(xxiv) chemotherapy in hospitals which are designated in writing by the

Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation of Nova Scotia for the

provision of such service;

(

k) prescribed form means form prescribed by the Commission;

(1) Rate Board means the board set up by the Commission for the purposes of

recommending the basis of payment to hospitals for insured services;

(m) (

i) resident means a person who is legally entitled to remain in Canada

and who makes his home and is ordinarily present in Nova Scotia,

but does not include a tourist, a transient, or a visitor to Nova

Scotia; for the purposes of the Act and these regulations a person

who is a resident of Nova Scotia and who moves from Nova Scotia

to acquire residence in another part of Canada, herein called the new

province, shall be deemed to continue to be a resident of Nova

Scotia during normal travelling time and any waiting period, not

exceeding three months, which may be necessary in order to qualify

for benefits under the hospital insurance legislation of the new

province if the new province is a participating province, as defined

in subsection (2) of Regulation 7, or shall be deemed to continue to

be a resident of Nova Scotia for a period of three months from the

date of his departure from Nova Scotia if the new province is not a

participating province,

(

n) standard ward means an area in a hospital designated by the board of the

hospital and approved by the Commission as a standard ward;

(

o) superintendent means the person who has the direct and actual

superintendence and charge of a hospital;

(

p) province includes the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory.

Insured services - general

(1) Subject to the Health Services and Insurance Act and these regulations,

(

a) a resident is entitled to receive in-patient and out-patient services that are

medically required by him, without charge as insured services, commencing

on the first day of the third month immediately following the month in

which he becomes a resident of Nova Scotia;

(

b) a new Canadian is entitled to receive in-patient and out-patient services that

are medically required by him, without charge as insured services,

commencing on the day he becomes a resident of Nova Scotia.

(2) In clause (

b) of subsection (1) new Canadian means a resident who moves to Nova

Scotia from a place outside Canada, and is legally entitled to remain in Canada.

2A Residents, and their children under the age of 21 years who are dependent on them, and

the spouses of such residents, where such residents are employed in the Public Service of

the Province including employment by the Crown in the right of the Province and an

agency thereof, shall be deemed to be residents for the purpose of the Act during

temporary absence from the Province for a period of up to two years where such absence

is required by virtue of their employment (and such period of absence may be extended

from time to time by the Governor in Council).

3 A resident is entitled to insured in-patient services for the period of time following

admission during which such in-patient services are medically required.

4 A person, who claims to be entitled to insured services, shall provide the hospital with

proof of his entitlement.

5 The Commission shall not make payment in respect of services rendered to a patient after

the effective date of discharge of the patient as ordered by the attending physician, unless

the Commission is satisfied that the services were medically required after that date.

(1) If, in the opinion of the Commission, any of the services provided to the patient are

or were not medically necessary the patient shall not be entitled to such services as

insured services.

(2) When, in the opinion of the Commission, a doubt exists concerning the medical

necessity for in-patient or out-patient services in any case, the Commission may

appoint and empower a medical review board to report on the case.

Insured services outside the Province

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Minister may pay for a resident, or reimburse a

resident for the costs incurred by the resident, for all of the following:

(

a) to receive medically necessary in-patient services, out-patient services or

insured professional services outside the Province;

(

b) to travel and obtain accommodation and food for the purposes of receiving

medically necessary in-patient services, out-patient services or insured

professional services outside the Province;

(

c) to be accompanied by 1 or more persons for the purposes of receiving

medically necessary in-patient services, out-patient services or insured

professional services outside the Province.

(2) The Minister may make the payment or reimbursement described in subsection

(1) only if all of the following conditions are met:

(

a) before the resident receives the in-patient services, out-patient services or

insured professional services, the Minister approves all of the following in

writing:

(

i) the in-patient services, out-patient services or insured professional

services to be received by the resident,

(ii) the facility where the resident will receive the in-patient services,

out-patient services or insured professional services,

(iii) the costs of all of the following:

(

A) the in-patient services, out-patient services or insured

professional services,

(

B) travel, accommodation and food,

(

C) the person or persons to accompany the resident;

(

b) a physician who holds a relevant specialty approved by the Minister and

who has treated the resident provides the Minister with a referral, in form

and content acceptable to the Minister, for the resident to receive the

services.

(3) Despite subsection (2), the Minister may waive the requirement for the Minister’s

prior approval, and the requirement for a specialist referral, or both, for payment or

reimbursement under clause (1)(

a) if the services are received by the resident in

Canada.

(4) The Minister may pay for a resident, or reimburse a resident for the costs incurred

by the resident, to receive in-patient services, out-patient services or insured

professional services outside the Province if the services are medically necessary

because of an accident or sudden attack of illness, and the Minister has determined

that the payment or reimbursement is reasonable.

(5) Despite subsection (4), the Minister must not pay for a resident, or reimburse a

resident for the costs incurred by the resident, to receive out-patient services in the

circumstances described in subsection (4) outside Canada.

(6) To determine whether to grant the approval required by subsection (2) or whether a

payment or reimbursement is reasonable under subsection (4), the Minister may

require the recipient or any other person to provide any information, record or

supporting document.

(7) The Minister may establish maximum amounts to be paid or reimbursed under this

Section.

(8) The Minister must not make a payment or reimbursement under this

Section in

relation to services received outside Canada if the claim is received by the Minister

more than 6 months after the later of the following dates:

(

a) the date the resident received the services; or

(

b) if the resident has been admitted to a hospital, the date of discharge from the

hospital.

(9) Despite subsection (8), the Minister may make a payment or reimbursement under

this

Section in relation to services received outside Canada if the claim is received

after the time period described in subsection (8) if all of the following apply:

(

a) the conditions of subsection (2) are met;

(

b) the Minister considers it reasonable to make a payment or reimbursement

for the services.

(10) The Minister must not make a payment or reimbursement under this

Section for

services received in Canada if the amount is greater than the amount specified for

the service in the applicable inter-provincial agreement or agreements regarding

rates or charges for insured health services.

8 [repealed]

Payments to hospitals in the Province other than federal hospitals

9 The board of every hospital shall provide to residents, without charge, those insured

services that the hospital is staffed and equipped to provide.

10 The Commission shall pay the cost of insured services as determined by the

Commission, provided to residents by each hospital that complies with these regulations.

(1) Every hospital board shall submit to the Commission, not later than October 31 of

each year, its budget estimates on the forms prescribed for the ensuing fiscal year.

(2) The Commission shall appoint a Rate Board of not fewer than 3 nor more than 5

persons, each of whom is a member or employee of the Commission or a

consultant to the Commission, which shall review and analyze the annual budget

estimates submitted by the hospital boards.

(3) The Rate Board shall make recommendations to the Commission for the approval

by the Commission of the budget estimates of each hospital either as submitted or

with such modifications as the Rate Board considers proper.

(4) The Commission shall review and may approve and accept the recommendations

of the Rate Board, or may vary them of its own motion or on the request of the

hospital board to the Commission.

(5) On approval by the Commission of the budget estimates of a hospital either as

submitted or as modified, the estimates shall be the approved budget of the

hospital for the ensuing fiscal year and shall constitute the basis on which

payments shall be made by the Commission to the hospital for that year.

(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of these regulations, the Commission, at any

time after the first of September in any year on its own motion or at the written

request of a board made to the Commission between the first of September and the

thirty-first day of January in any year, may review and revise the budget of a

hospital and the budget so revised shall be, for the remainder of that year, the

approved budget of the hospital.

(7) Pending the approval of the budget estimates of a hospital for any fiscal year, the

Commission may establish an interim approved budget for the hospital for a fiscal

year and may make payments to the hospital on the basis of the interim approved

budget.

(8) The Commission shall pay in approximately equal instalments, at intervals that are

not less frequent than semi-monthly, the portion of the approved budget of a

hospital related to the costs of insured services that does not represent the cost of

providing out-patient services and depreciation on furniture and equipment, as

those portions are determined by the Commission.

(9) The portion of the approved budget of a hospital representing depreciation on

furniture and equipment that is included in the cost of providing insured services,

shall be paid by instalments to the hospital not less frequently than every 6 months,

and shall be funded by the board and used only for the purchase of furniture and

equipment approved by the Commission.

(9A) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (8) and (9), payments may be made

to a hospital of sums not exceeding the total cost of furniture and equipment that is

included in the cost of providing insured services.

(10) The Commission, at intervals determined by it, shall pay to each hospital for

insured out-patient services provided by the hospital at the rates determined by the

Commission under subsection (11).

(11) The Commission shall calculate the costs to the hospitals of providing out-patient

services and shall determine the rates at which it will make payments to hospitals

in respect of the cost to them of providing insured out-patient services.

11A In computing the number of patient days of hospital services provided to a patient, the day

of admission shall be counted as one day, and the day of discharge or death shall not be

counted, regardless of the hour of admission or death, providing that if the patient is

discharged or dies on the day of admission, that day shall be counted as one day.

(1) Each month, not later than a date to be fixed by the Commission, the

Superintendent of every hospital shall submit to the Commission a report, in the

prescribed form, of actual revenues and expenditures of the hospital in the

preceding month.

(2) Not later than the thirty-first day of May of each year, every hospital board shall

submit to the Commission financial statements for the preceding fiscal year,

audited by an accountant licensed under the Public Accountants Act or in the case

of a Provincial or federal hospital, by an auditor appointed by the body controlling

the hospital.

(1) Subject to the other provisions of these regulations, if the audited financial

statement of a hospital for the fiscal year shows that the hospital has had actual

expenditures for insured services greater or less than the amount received from the

Commission in respect of the fiscal year, the Commission may determine that it

will pay the hospital part or all of the difference between the amount received from

the Commission and actual expenditures for insured services, or where the amount

that the hospital received was over and above what was expended by it for insured

services, according to the audited financial statement of the hospital for the fiscal

year, the Commission may require some or all of the amount to be returned to it by

the hospital.

(2) The Commission shall not pay part or all of the said difference to a hospital unless

the board of the hospital submits to the Commission with its financial statement a

claim for the payment, in the form prescribed, together with material that satisfies

the Commission that

(

a) the additional expenditure could not reasonably have been foreseen and

provided for;

(

b) these expenditures were reasonable and proper;

(

c) these expenditures, if foreseen and included in original budget estimates,

would have been approved by the Commission.

Payments to federal hospitals in the Province

14 The Commission shall make payments to federal hospitals in Nova Scotia, in respect to

insured services provided in federal hospitals to residents as provided in the agreement.

Standard control

15 The superintendent of a hospital, if required by the Commission, shall forward to the

Commission, within forty-eight hours after each patient is admitted, a notification of

admission of the patient in the form prescribed.

16 The superintendent of every hospital shall forward to the Commission within four days

after each patient is discharged from hospital, a notification of discharge or death, in the

form prescribed.

17 When a person, entitled to insured services, has been an in-patient in a hospital for thirty

or more consecutive days, the superintendent of the hospital shall forward to the

Commission a Long Stay Report, in the prescribed form, respecting the patient, within

four days after the expiry of the first and every subsequent thirty-day period during which

the patient remains in hospital.

18 The superintendent of every hospital shall forward to the Commission every month, not

later than a date to be fixed by the Commission, a report, in the prescribed form, with

respect to out-patient services in the preceding month.

19 To provide for the effective utilization of in-patient and out-patient services in hospitals,

there shall be set up the following Standards Committees:

(

a) Hospital Standards Committee

(

i) In every hospital that is not a facility, there shall be set up by the

Board, a Hospital Standards Committee of not fewer than three

persons, including the superintendent, with representation from the

board and the medical staff; the function of this Committee shall be

to assist and advise the hospital board in developing and

maintaining high standards of service and reasonable and proper

utilization of services.

(ii) The members of a Hospital Standards Committee who are members

of the medical staff, together with such other members of the

medical staff as are appointed by that staff, shall constitute a

subcommittee whose function shall be to study matters primarily of

a medical nature, and to report to and advise the Committee on such

matters.

(iii) The Committee shall review semi-monthly, admissions, length of

patient stay, drug usage, diagnostic services, nursing services and all

other matters having to do with the standard of services and the

utilization of services in the hospital.

(iv) The Committee shall advise forthwith the hospital board if, in the

opinion of the Committee, the standard of any service is

unsatisfactory or the utilization of any service provided by the

hospital is not reasonable and proper.

(

b) Regional Standards Committee

(

i) In a Hospital Region, there may be set up by the Commission a

Regional Standards Committee, on which there shall be

representation from each hospital in the region.

(ii) It shall be the function of this Committee to conduct studies relative

to standards of care and utilization, and to strive to effect a high

standard of care and proper utilization of services in the Region by

means of such studies and by dissemination of information to the

hospital boards and staffs in the Region.

(iii) The Committee shall meet not less frequently than every six

months.

(

c) Provincial Standards Committee

(

i) The Commission in whole or in part shall act as a Provincial

Standards Committee to ensure insofar as is possible the

development and maintenance of a high standard of hospital

services and reasonable and proper utilization of hospital services in

all hospitals of the Province.

(ii) To assist the Provincial Standards Committee in carrying out its

function, the Commission may appoint a Professional Technical

Advisory Committee.

20 If the board or superintendent of a hospital fails to comply with the requirements of the

Act or these regulations, the Commission may withhold payments to the hospital until the

hospital has complied substantially with the requirements of the Act or these regulations.

21 The Commission may, from time to time, prescribe such forms as it considers necessary

or advisable for the proper administration of the Act and these regulations.

(1) In this regulation [Section]

(

a) Board means the Board of Management of the Hospital;

(

b) fiscal year means a year ending on the 31st day of March;

(

c) Hospital means the Nova Scotia Hospital at Woodside, in the County of

Halifax.

(2) This regulation [Section] applies only to the Hospital.

(3) (

a) The Board shall submit to the Commission, not later than October 31 of

each year, its annual budget estimates on the forms prescribed for the

ensuing year.

(

b) On approval by the Commission of the budget estimates of the Hospital

either as submitted or as modified, the estimates shall be the approved

budget of the Hospital and shall constitute the basis on which payments

shall be made by the Commission to the Hospital for that year.

(

c) Pending the approval of the budget estimates of the Hospital for any year,

the Commission may establish an interim budget for the Hospital for that

year and may make payments to the Hospital on the basis of the interim

approved budget.

(4) Not later than May 31st of each year the Board shall submit to the Commission

financial statements for the preceding fiscal year audited by the Auditor General of

Nova Scotia.

(5) (

a) Subject to the other provisions of these regulations, the Commission may

approve payment to the Hospital of part or all of the difference between the

amount received from the Commission and the actual expenditures as

shown on the audited financial statements; or the Commission shall

determine the amount to be recovered over and above the amount the

Commission determined should have been expended.

(

b) The Commission shall not approve payment of part or all of the said

difference to the Hospital unless the Board submits to the Commission a

claim for the payment, in the form prescribed, together with material that

satisfies the Commission that these expenditures were reasonable and

proper.

(6) The Hospital shall forthwith transmit to the Commission a copy of every direction

and report required under the Nova Scotia Hospital Act , R.S.N.S. 1967, c. 210, S.

24(2).

(7) In computing the number of patient days of hospital services provided to a patient,

the day of admission shall be counted as one day, and the day of discharge or death

shall not be counted, regardless of the hour of admission or death, providing that if

the patient is discharged or dies on the day of admission that day shall be counted

as one day.

(8) Each month, not later than a date to be fixed by the Commission, the Hospital shall

submit to the Commission a report, in the prescribed form, of actual revenues and

expenditures of the Hospital in the preceding month.

(9) The Hospital, if required by the Commission, shall forward to the Commission,

within forty-eight hours after each patient is admitted, a notification of admission

of the patient in the form prescribed.

(10) The Hospital shall forward to the Commission within four days after each patient

is discharged from the Hospital or dies in the Hospital, a notification of discharge

or death, in the form prescribed.

(11) The Hospital shall forward to the Commission every month, not later than a date to

be fixed by the Commission, a report, in the prescribed form, with respect to

outpatient services in the preceding month.

(12) (

a) To provide for the effective utilization of in-patient and out-patient services

in the Hospital, there shall be set up by the Board a Hospital Standards

Committee of not fewer than three persons, including the administrator,

with representation from the Board and the medical staff; the function of

this Committee shall be to assist and advise the Board in developing and

maintaining high standards of service and reasonable and proper utilization

of services.

(

b) The members of the Hospital Standards Committee who are members of the

Medical Staff, together with such other members of the Medical Staff as are

appointed by that staff, shall constitute a subcommittee whose function shall

be to study matters primarily of a medical nature, and to report to and advise

the Committee on such matters.

(

c) The Committee shall review semi-monthly, admission, length of patient

stay, drug usage, diagnostic services, nursing services and all other matters

having to do with the standard of services and the utilization of services in

the Hospital.

(

d) The Committee shall advise forthwith the Board if, in the opinion of the

Committee, the standard of any service is unsatisfactory or the utilization of

any service provided by the Hospital is not reasonable and proper.

(13) If the Hospital fails to comply with the requirements of this regulation [Section],

the Commission may withhold payments to the Hospital until the Hospital has

complied substantially with the requirements of this regulation [Section].

(14) The Commission may, from time to time, prescribe such forms as it considers

necessary or advisable for the proper administration of this regulation [Section].

(1) In this regulation [Section], facility means any institution approved as a hospital

for the purposes of this Act only, but not approved as a hospital for the purposes of

the Hospitals Act.

(2) Every facility shall be governed by a Board established in a manner satisfactory to

the Minister.

(3) The Board of every facility shall make, amend, repeal and revise such by-laws as

required by the Minister.

(4) No by-law made by the Board of any facility shall have any effect until it is

approved by the Minister.

(5) No facility shall establish or extend any service without the approval of the

Minister.

Schedule A - Drugs, Biologicals and Related Preparations

1 Drugs, biologicals and related preparations which, in the judgment of the physician, are

required by an insured patient, in accordance with accepted practice and sound teaching,

and administered in a hospital including a federal Hospital.

2 Excluded are preparations sold under the Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act .

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Hospital Insurance Regulations

N.S. Reg. 11/1958

Health Services and Insurance Act

Note: The information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Hospital Insurance Regulations made under the Health Services and Insurance Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

11/1958

Oct 20, 1958

date made

unpublished 1

12/1959

May 15, 1959

date made

unpublished 1

40/1959

Oct 15, 1959

date made

unpublished 1

11/1960

Jun 22, 1960

date made

unpublished 1

12/1960

Aug 31, 1960

date made

unpublished 1

14/1962

Oct 3, 1962

date made

unpublished 1

52/1962

Jan 17, 1962

date made

unpublished 1

17/1963

Jan 21, 1963

date made

unpublished 1

O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

April 30, 1963

date made

unpublished 1

18/1963

Dec 31, 1963

date made

unpublished 1

O.I.C. Nov 12, 1964 3

Nov 12, 1964

date made

unpublished 1

17/1964

Nov 16, 1964

date made

unpublished 1

24/1966

May 21, 1966

date made

unpublished 1

25/1967

Oct 16, 1967

date made

unpublished 1

26/1967

Dec 19, 1967

date made

unpublished 1

24/1968

May 21, 1968

date made

unpublished 1

25/1968

Nov 26, 1968

date made

unpublished 1

25/1969

Jan 21, 1969

date made

unpublished 1

O.I.C. 69-292 3

Apr 1, 1969

date specified

unpublished 1

90/1969

May 20, 1969

date made

unpublished 1

91/1969

Sep 9, 1969

date made

unpublished 1

24/1970

Feb 3, 1970

date made

unpublished 1

25/1970

Jun 16, 1970

date made

unpublished 1

26/1970

Jul 14, 1970

date made

unpublished 1

61/1971

Apr 27, 1971

date made

unpublished 1

O.I.C. 71-77 3

undetermined

undated O.I.C. with no in force date listed

unpublished

89/1972

Jul 25, 1972

date made

unpublished 1

90/1972

Nov 7, 1972

date made

unpublished 1

98/1977

Jan 1, 1977

date specified

Sep 22, 1977

176/1977

Dec 20, 1977

date made

Dec 30, 1977

102/1978

May 1, 1978

date specified

May 18, 1978

122/1978

May 1, 1978

date specified

Jun 29, 1978

58/1979

Apr 3, 1979

date made

Apr 19, 1979

209/1979

Dec 18, 1979

date made

Dec 31, 1979

83/1980

May 13, 1980

date made

May 29, 1980

26/1981

Mar 10, 1981

date made

Mar 26, 1981

181/1982

Aug 10, 1982

date made

Aug 26, 1982

201/1982

Sep 21, 1982

date made

Oct 7, 1982

233/1982

Nov 23, 1982

date made

Dec 16, 1982

62/1983

Feb 21, 1983

date specified

May 19, 1983

137/1983

Jul 5, 1983

date made

Jul 28, 1983

212/1983

Sep 27, 1983

date made

Oct 20, 1983

228/1986

Aug 19, 1986

date made

Sep 11, 1986

148/1990

Jul 1, 1990

date specified

Jun 15, 1990

149/1990 4

May 31, 1990

date made

Jun 15, 1990

33/2023

Feb 7, 2023

date specified

Feb 24, 2023

The following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

1( ee )..................................................

ad. 176/1977

1( eee )................................................

ad. 148/1990

1(h)...................................................

am. 17/1964, 58/1979, 137/1983

1(h)(x).........................................

ad. 12/1959

1(j)(ix)..............................................

rs . 181/1982

1(j)(x)...............................................

ad. 12/1959

1(j)(xi)..............................................

ad. 40/1959 ; rs . 52/1962

1(j)(xi)(L)....................................

rep. 18/1963

1(j)(xii).............................................

ad. 18/1963

1(j)(xiii)............................................

ad. 17/1964

1(j)(xiv)............................................

ad. 25/1968

1(j)(xv).............................................

ad. 25/1969

1(j)(xvi)............................................

ad. 90/1969

1(j)(xvii)...........................................

ad. 91/1969

1(j)(xviii)..........................................

ad. O.I.C. 69-952 3

1(j)(xix)............................................

ad. 58/1979

1(j)(xx).............................................

ad. 58/1979

1(j)(xxi)............................................

ad. 209/1979

1(j)(xxii)...........................................

ad. 83/1980

1(j)(xxiii)..........................................

ad. 26/1981

1(j)(xxiv)..........................................

ad. 181/1982 6

1(l)....................................................

ra. from 1(m) 18/1963

1(m)..................................................

rs . 12/1960; ra. as 1(l) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(n) 18/1963 ; ra. as 1(m)( i ) 212/1983

1(m)( i )..............................................

ra. from 1(m) 212/1983

1(m)(ii).............................................

ad. 212/1983

1(n)...................................................

ra. as 1(m) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(o) 18/1963

1(o)...................................................

ra. as 1(n) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(p) 18/1963

1(p)...................................................

ad. 11/1960 ; ra. as 1(o) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(q) 18/1963

1(q)...................................................

ra. as 1(p) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(q) 18/1963

1(r)....................................................

ra. as 1(q) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(s) 18/1963

1(s)....................................................

ra. as 1(r) 18/1963 ; ra. from 1(t) 18/1963

1(t)....................................................

ra. as 1(s) 18/1963

2........................................................

rs . 89/1972

2A.....................................................

ad. 98/1977

5........................................................

am. 12/1960

7........................................................

rs . 33/2023

7(1)..............................................

rs . 12/1959

7(1)(c).........................................

am. 12/1960

7(3)..............................................

fc. 12/1960; rs . 17/1964, 148/1990

7(3)(a)(iv)....................................

rs . 26/1967

7(3)(a)(v).....................................

ad. 26/1967 ; rs . O.I.C. 71-77 3 , 61/1971 3 , 90/1972 3

7(3)(a)(vi)....................................

rs . O.I.C. 71-77 3 , 61/1971 3 , 90/1972 3

7(3)(e)-(f)....................................

rs . O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

7( 3)( fa)........................................

ad. O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

7(3)(l)..........................................

rep. O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

7(3)(n).........................................

rs . O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

7(3)(p).........................................

rs . O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

7(4)..............................................

ad. 14/1962 ; rs . 17/1964, 24/1966, 148/1990

7(4)(a)(ii)....................................

rs . 24/1970

7(4)(a)(iii)...................................

am. 201/1982

7(5)..............................................

ad. 14/1962

7(6)..............................................

ad. 233/1982 ; am. 148/1990

7.1.....................................................

ad. 148/1990 ; rep. 33/2023

7.2.....................................................

ad. 148/1990 ; rep. 33/2023

8........................................................

rep. 102/1978 ;

ad. 62/1983 ; rs . 148/1990; rep. 33/2023

8(1)(a)-(b)...................................

rs . O.I.C. Nov 12, 1964 3

11(1).................................................

am. 176/1977

11(2).................................................

am. 40/1959

11(6).................................................

rs . 11/1960; am. 176/1977

11(8)-(9)...........................................

rs . 17/1963

11(9A)..............................................

ad. 122/1978

11(10)-(11).......................................

rs . 17/1963

11(12)-(14).......................................

rep. 17/1963

11A...................................................

ad. 17/1963

13......................................................

ra. as 13(1) O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

13(1).................................................

ra. from 13 O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3 ; rs . 228/1986

13(2).................................................

ad. O.I.C. Apr 30, 1963 3

12(2).................................................

am. 176/1977

19(B)( i ).............................................

am. 52/1962

19(C)( i ).............................................

rs . 12/1959

22......................................................

ad. 25/1967

22(6).................................................

rs . 24/1968, 26/1970 5

23......................................................

ad. 25/1970

23(1).................................................

rs . 137/1983

23(2)-(5)...........................................

am. 137/1983

“calendar” replaced throughout with “fiscal”...........................................

am. 176/1977

Note that changes to headings are not included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Regulations in effect on April 1, 1977, and filed with the Registrar before March 31, 1978, are exempt from publication under subsection 24(2) of the Regulations Act .

The Public Accountants Act referred to in s. 12(2) is repealed by s. 34 of the Financial Measures

(2019) Act , S.N.S. 2019, c. 4. Refer to the Chartered Professional Accountants Act , S.N.S. 2015, c. 55 for continued licensing of public accountants.

Sep 1, 2019

O.I.C. 71-77 is not filed with the Office of the Registrar of Regulations.

This regulation amends O.I.C. 90-659, which is part of N.S. Reg. 148/1990.

May 31, 1990

Subsection 24(2) of the Nova Scotia Hospital Act is repealed by S.N.S. 1977, c. 45, S. 11.

O.I.C. 69-292 designates electrocardiograms and the

interpretation thereof as an insured out-patient service under the Hospital Insurance Plan, but does not specifically amend these regulations.

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table. It may not reflect the entire history of regulations on this subject matter.