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Workers Compensation Act

Firefighters' Occupational Disease Regulation

B.C. Reg. 362/2005

 Regulation BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 125/2009, effective March 18, 2009.

B.C. Reg. 362/2005
O.C. 881/2005
Deposited December 9, 2005
effective April 11, 2005

Workers Compensation Act

Firefighters' Occupational Disease Regulation

 Diseases and minimum cumulative periods prescribed

1  The diseases set out in Column 1 of the Table are prescribed as occupational diseases for the purposes of section 6.1 (2) of the Workers Compensation Act and the minimum cumulative period set out in Column 2 of the Table is prescribed for the purposes of section 6.1 (3) (a) of that Act for the occupational disease set out opposite it in Column 1.

Table

ItemColumn 1
Occupational Disease
Column 2
Minimum Cumulative
Period
1primary leukemia5 years
2primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma20 years
3primary site bladder cancer15 years
4primary site brain cancer10 years
5primary site colorectal cancer20 years
6primary site kidney cancer20 years
6.1primary site testicular cancer20 years
7primary site ureter cancer15 years

[am. B.C. Reg. 110/2008]

[Provisions of the Workers Compensation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 492, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: section 6.1 (4) and (5)]