Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project Regulations
made under subsection 307(1) of the
Motor Vehicle Act
R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 293
O.I.C. 2025-205 (effective July 10, 2025), N.S. Reg. 129/2025
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Pilot project
Parking in designated lot
Proof of attending healthcare facility
Penalty
Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Health Authority Parking Lots Pilot Project
Regulations.
Definitions
2 In these regulations,
“designated parking lot” means a vehicle parking area owned, occupied or operated
by a health authority to serve any of the following healthcare facilities:
(i) Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre,
(ii) IWK Health Centre,
(iii) a healthcare facility designated by the Minister, where the vehicle
parking area is clearly identified as a designated parking lot to which
these regulations apply by signage at all entrances to the vehicle
parking area;
“health authority” means a health authority as defined in the Health Authorities
Act;
“healthcare facility” means a facility owned, occupied or operated by a health
authority;
“park” means to leave a vehicle standing, whether occupied or not.
Pilot project
3 The Governor in Council hereby authorizes a pilot project, while these regulations are in
force, for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of a significant monetary fine in
preventing persons from parking in designated parking lots when not attending a
healthcare facility, as identified in Section 4.
Parking in designated lot
4 (1) A person must not park in a health authority’s designated parking lot unless they
are attending a healthcare facility served by the designated parking lot.
(2) A person is considered to be attending a health authority’s healthcare facility under
subsection (1) if they are attending the healthcare facility as 1 of the following
persons on the date that they park in the designated lot:
(a) a patient of the health authority;
(b) a visitor to a patient of the health authority;
(c) a member of the medical, dental or scientific staff of the health authority;
(d) an employee of the health authority;
(e) a volunteer of the health authority;
(f) a service provider or prospective service provider of the health authority, or
the service provider’s employees;
(g) a person having other business with the health authority.
Proof of attending healthcare facility
5 A person may demonstrate that they parked in a health authority’s designated parking lot
to attend a healthcare facility by producing any of the following documents to an
employee or agent of the health authority on request:
(a) a valid health authority personnel identification document issued to them by
a health authority;
(b) a document provided to them by the health authority to demonstrate their
attendance at the healthcare facility on the day that they parked in the
designated parking lot.
Penalty
6 The penalty for a violation of Section 4 of these regulations is a fine of $500.00.
The following regulations are not
yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation: