Appendix

1 Section 31.1 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 296/97, is amended

(a) by renumbering the section as section 31.1 (1),

(b) in subsection (1) by repealing paragraph (b) of the definition of "fire department" and substituting the following:

(b) a board, society or commission on behalf of a body referred to in paragraph (a), or ,

(c) in subsection (1) by repealing the definition of "firefighter",

(d) in subsection (1) by adding the following definition:

"fire personnel" means workers, other than firefighters, who are employed, with or without remuneration, in firefighting, fire inspection, fire investigation, the maintenance of firefighting equipment, the training for and direction of those activities, or other similar duties; , and

(e) by adding the following subsection:

(2) In this Part, a reference to a firefighter is to be read as including fire personnel.

2 Section 31.2 is repealed and the following substituted:

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