An Act respecting the Two-platoon System for Employees of certain Municipal Fire Departments.

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia,

enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Fire Departments Two-platoon Short title. Act."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, "Fire Chief" Interpretation. means the officer in charge of a fire department.

of Act.

3. This Act shall apply to the following municipalities: City of Application Vancouver, The Corporation of the City of Victoria, The Corporation of the City of New Westminster, Corporation of Point Grey, and The Corporation of the District of South Vancouver.

of two-platoon

4. In each of the municipalities to which this Act applies the Establishment Fire Chief shall from time to time divide the officers and employees system. of the fire department of the municipality into two platoons for work only in accordance with one of the following systems:

No. 1 System: Under which the Fire Chief shall not keep a
platoon on duty for more than twenty-four consecutive
hours, after which the platoon so kept on duty shall be
allowed twenty-four consecutive hours off duty:

No. 2 System: Under which one platoon shall be on duty for
day-work for ten consecutive hours each day, and the other
platoon shall be on duty for night-work for fourteen con-
secutive hours each day, each platoon to alternate at least
once in every seven days from day-work to night-work or
from night-work to day-work, as the case may be.

Supremacy of

Act over inconsistent Acts and by-laws.

Maintenance of salaries

and holidays.

Penalties.

Full attendance of
fire department
at conflagrations.

5. The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special Act, or of any by-laws of the municipality relating to its fire department.

6. No deduction shall be made from the pay or the holidays of the officers or employees of the fire department in any municipality by reason only of the application of this Act to the municipality.

7. Subject to section 8, every Fire Chief or officer of the fire department of a municipality to which this Act applies who directs or requests an officer or employee of the fire department to be on duty in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

8. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act, in case of a conflagration for the control of which the attendance of all officers and employees of the fire department is in the opinion of the Fire Chief necessary, the Fire Chief may require the attendance of all the officers and employees for work during the continuance of the conflagration.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1923.

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CHAPTER 16.

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1921 (2nd Sess.),

c. 15; 1922, c. 26.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Fire Marshal Act Amendment Short title. Act, 1923."

2. Section 10 of the "Fire Marshal Act," being chapter 15 of the Amends s. 10. Statutes of 1921 (Second Session), is amended by inserting after the

word "paid," in the first line of subsection (5), the words "out of

the Fire Marshal Act Fund."

3. Section 13 of said chapter 15 is amended by striking out the Amends s. 13. words "moneys appropriated for the expenses of administration under this Act" in the last two lines of subsection (4), and substituting therefor the words "Fire Marshal Act Fund."

4. Section 17 of said chapter 15 is amended as follows:(1.) By striking out clause (a) of subsection (1), and substituting therefor the following:

"(a.) In case the building or premises are in a state of disrepair, fire starting therein might spread so rapidly as

to endanger other buildings or property."

(2.) By adding the following as subsection (3):

"(3.) The cost of complying with any order shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be borne by the owner, and where by reason of the default of the owner the occupier pays the cost he shall have a right of action or set-off against the owner for all costs actually and necessarily incurred or paid by him in complying with the order."

Amends s. 17.

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Amends s. 21.

Amends s. 27.

Amends s. 32.

Retrospective.

5. Section 21 of said chapter 15 is amended:(1.) By striking out from subsection (2) all words after the word "Marshal" in the third line; and

(2.) By striking out subsection (3), and substituting therefor the following:

"(3.) The Judge shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal and shall make such order as seems meet to him, and his decision shall be final and conclusive, except that on a point of law an appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal."

6. Section 27 of said chapter 15 is amended by striking out all words after the word "building" in the sixth line, and substituting therefor the following: "pays the cost, he shall have a right of action or set-off against the owner for all such costs actually and necessarily incurred or paid by him in complying with this Part."

7. (1.) Section 32 of said chapter 15 is amended by striking out subsections (3) and (4), and substituting therefor the following:"(3.) The Provincial Collector at Victoria and the Superintendent shall pay all moneys received by them respectively under this Act into the Provincial Treasury to the credit of an account to be known as the Fire Marshal Act Fund,' and the money at the credit of the account shall be paid out by the Minister of Finance for the purposes of this Act only. If at any time there are not sufficient moneys at the credit of the account to meet the expenses chargeable thereto, the Minister of Finance may loan to the account from the Consolidated Revenue Fund the amount necessary, which amount shall be repayable from the account, with interest at such rate as the Minister of Finance may prescribe.

"(4.) The Superintendent shall keep a separate account showing the moneys received under this section and the moneys expended in administration under this Act, in such manner as may be required for the information of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council in fixing the rate of contribution under this section."

(2.) The surplus of moneys received by way of revenue over the expenses of administration under this Act up to the time of the coming into operation of this section shall be determined by the Comptroller-General, and the amount shall be paid by the Minister of Finance from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the credit of the Fire Marshal Act Fund constituted under this section.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.

1923

An Act respecting Crown Timber and the Conservation and Preservation of Forests.

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[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Forest Act."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-
"Crown lands" means such ungranted Crown or public lands
or Crown domain as are within and belong to His Majesty
in right of the Province, and whether or not any waters
flow over or cover the same, except lands lawfully held
under pre-emption entry and record:

"Crown timber" includes any trees, timber, and products of
the forest in respect whereof His Majesty in right of the
Province is entitled to demand and receive any royalty
or revenue or money whatsoever:

"Minister" means the Minister of Lands:

"Sawlogs" includes all logs of pine, fir, cedar, spruce, or other
timber of whatever length, whether round or flatted:
"Saw-timber" includes all timber cut on any area held under a
pulp licence which is used or disposed of for purposes
other than manufacture into wood-pulp or paper in the
mill to which the pulp licence is appurtenant:

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Stumpage" includes every sum reserved or made payable to
the Crown in right of the Province, whether by Statute or
by contract, in respect of any timber, and in addition to
rentals and royalties and taxes:

"Timber" includes sawlogs, spars, piles, poles, railway-ties,
shingle-bolts, pulp-wood, and other cut timber:

Short title.

Interpretation.