Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024

S.R. No. 49/2024

Version as at

30 June 2024

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Revocations

5Places prescribed to be community fire refuges

Schedule 1—Blackwood Community Fire Refuge

Schedule 2—East Warburton Community Fire Refuge

Schedule 3—Ferny Creek Community Fire Refuge

Schedule 4—Millgrove Community Fire Refuge

Schedule 5—Lavers Hill Community Fire Refuge

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Endnotes

1      General information

2      Table of Amendments

3      Explanatory details

Version No. 001

Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024

S.R. No. 49/2024

Version as at

30 June 2024

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to prescribe a place to be a community fire refuge for the purposes of Part IIIA of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 110 of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 30 June 2024.

4Revocations

The following Regulations are revoked—

(a)the Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2014[1];

(b)the Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Amendment Regulations 2015[2];

(c)the Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Amendment Regulations 2017[3].

5Places prescribed to be community fire refuges

For the purpose of the definition of community fire refuge in section 50A of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958, the following places are prescribed—

(a)the Blackwood Community Fire Refuge, being the building known as the Blackwood Country Fire Authority Station located at 2 Terrill Street, Blackwood in the Shire of Moorabool, shown hatched on the sketch plan in Schedule 1;

(b)the East Warburton Community Fire Refuge, being the building known as the Library and Learning Centre at the Millwarra Primary School—East Warburton Campus located at 397 Woods Point Road, East Warburton in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, shown hatched on the sketch plan in Schedule 2;

(c)the Ferny Creek Community Fire Refuge, being the building known as the Library and Learning Centre at the Ferny Creek Primary School located at School Road, Ferny Creek in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, shown hatched on the sketch plan in Schedule 3;

(d)the Millgrove Community Fire Refuge, being the building known as the Wesburn‑Millgrove Country Fire Authority Station located at 3060 Warburton Highway, Millgrove in the Shire of Yarra Ranges, shown hatched on the sketch plan in Schedule 4;

(e)the Lavers Hill Community Fire Refuge, being the building known as the Otway Country Fire Authority Station located at

8–14 Lavers Hill‑Cobden Road, Lavers Hill in the Shire of Colac Otway, shown hatched on the sketch plan in Schedule 5.

SCHEDULE 1—BLACKWOOD COMMUNITY FIRE REFUGE

Regulation 5(a)

SCHEDULE 2—EAST WARBURTON COMMUNITY FIRE REFUGE

Regulation 5(b)

SCHEDULE 3—FERNY CREEK COMMUNITY FIRE REFUGE

Regulation 5(c)

SCHEDULE 4—MILLGROVE COMMUNITY FIRE REFUGE

Regulation 5(d)

SCHEDULE 5—LAVERS HILL COMMUNITY FIRE REFUGE

Regulation 5(e)

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024, S.R. No. 49/2024 were made on 18 June 2024 by the Governor in Council under section 110 of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958, No. 6228/1958 and came into operation on 30 June 2024: regulation 3.

The Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 18 June 2034 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Country Fire Authority (Community Fire Refuges) Regulations 2024 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3   Explanatory details

[1] Reg. 4(a): S.R. No. 94/2014 as amended by S.R. Nos 148/2015 and 61/2017.

[2] Reg. 4(b): S.R. No. 148/2015.

[3] Reg. 4(c): S.R. No. 61/2017.