{"id":76,"date":"2008-10-18T20:33:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T20:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-04-03T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T20:27:38","slug":"canadian-province-of-british-columbia-adopts-new-gift-card-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Province of British Columbia Adopts New Gift Card Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbia has joined Alberta and a number of US states in banning gift card expiration. They also prohibit handling charges or fees except in limited circumstances. As with most such laws, once again open-loop (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) type gift cards are excluded from the new laws. Is it that Visa and Mastercard are such a strong lobbying force, or do lawmakers not fully understand how\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cashfromcards.com\/content\/gift_cards\">difficult<\/a> they are to use up completely? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.news.gov.bc.ca\/news_releases_2005-2009\/2008PSSG0055-001574.htm\">article<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Columbia has joined Alberta and a number of US states in banning gift card expiration. They also prohibit handling charges or fees except in limited circumstances. As with most such laws, once again open-loop (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) type gift cards are excluded from the new laws. Is it that Visa and Mastercard are such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}