Alberta Regulation 214/2025, titled Provincial Health Agencies Act (Consequential Amendments) Regulation, 2025 (No. 3), was filed pursuant to section 24.01 of the Provincial Health Agencies Act. This regulation introduces a comprehensive series of consequential amendments across more than thirty existing Alberta regulations. Its central purpose is to align provincial laws with the government’s new health governance structure under the Provincial Health Agencies Act, which replaces references to “regional health authorities” with the new framework of “provincial health agencies.” The amendments reflect Alberta’s transition away from regionally based administration toward a centralized provincial model of health oversight and service delivery.

The regulation methodically removes or replaces references to regional health authorities throughout Alberta’s legislative framework. It begins by updating the Alberta Public Agencies Governance Exemption Regulation and Artificial Tanning Regulation to redefine enforcement authority, now assigning enforcement roles to executive officers designated under the Public Health Act. The Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped General Regulation is similarly revised to eliminate obsolete references to regional authorities, ensuring consistency with the province’s new administrative terminology.

A major structural change comes through the repeal of both the Community Health Councils (Ministerial) Regulation and the Community Health Councils Regulation, formally dissolving community health councils as statutory entities. Their repeal signifies the government’s intent to consolidate public health governance under provincial agencies rather than local or regional boards.

Amendments also affect broader sectors beyond direct health services. The Condominium Property Regulation, Conflicts of Interest Act orders, and Credit Union (Principal) Regulation are all adjusted to reflect the elimination of regional authorities. In the Conflicts of Interest Act Part 4.3 Designation Order, for example, updates clarify that positions within provincial health agencies—such as Alberta Precision Laboratories Ltd.—remain subject to ethics oversight, but without the prior RHA distinction. Similarly, the Continuing Care Regulation and its ministerial counterpart are substantially revised, repealing clauses and subsections that once outlined specific roles for regional health authorities in the management and delivery of care.

Several other acts are modernized to reflect the same structural alignment. Amendments are made to the Corrections Regulation, Fuel Tax Regulation, Ground Ambulance Regulation, Health Advocate Regulation, and Health Information Regulation, among many others. The Mental Health Act Forms and Designation Regulation and Mental Health Patient Advocate Regulation receive extensive updates to remove all references to RHAs, ensuring that oversight, patient advocacy, and form designations now rest within the centralized framework.

Alberta (214/2025) October 28, 2025
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