Country Fire Authority Regulations 2025

In these Regulations—

Appeal Panel means the Panel under regulation 69;

appliance means a fire-fighting or emergency response vehicle operated by a member;

approved officer or member means an officer or member, class of officers or class of members approved by the Chief Officer to lead a burning operation for the purposes of regulation 137;

AS 1019 means Australian Standard AS 1019—2000, Internal combustion engines—Spark emission control devices, as in force before its cancellation on 19 October 2023;

AS 1687 means Australian Standard AS 1687—1991, Knapsack spray pumps for firefighting, as in force before its cancellation on 30 June 2017;

AS/NZS 1841.1 means Australian Standard and New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1841.1:2007, Portable fire extinguishers, Part 1: General requirements, as in force from time to time;

authorised burn delivery plan means a plan approved by an officer or a forest officer for the conduct of a burning operation incorporating the location, specifications and conditions under which the operation is to be conducted;

brigade area means the area of operation designated for a brigade by the Chief Officer under section 27 of the Act;

brigade management team means a group of members appointed by a brigade to manage and administer the affairs of the brigade;

call taking and dispatch services has the same meaning as in the Triple Zero Victoria Act 2023;

Commission means the Country Fire Authority Appeals Commission established under section 74A of the Act;

Computer Aided Dispatch system means the system used to deliver call taking and dispatch services by Triple Zero Victoria established under the Triple Zero Victoria Act 2023;

disciplinary hearing means a hearing under Subdivision 4 of Division 4 of Part 4 to determine whether a member of a brigade has engaged in conduct that is a ground for disciplinary action;

disciplinary investigation means an investigation under Subdivision 3 of Division 4 of Part 4 into the conduct of a member of a brigade;

disciplinary referral means a determination referred to in regulation 63(2)(b)(ii);

eligible to vote, in relation to a decision determined by a vote by members of a brigade or group, does not include a person specified in regulation 16;

employee means a person appointed under section 17 of the Act;

failure by an alarm monitoring system means a fault or failure of an alarm monitoring service to automatically transmit a signal of an alarm of fire, or have that signal transmitted from an alarm monitoring service accepted by the Computer Aided Dispatch system of the Authority;

financial statements means the records referred to in regulation 80;

forestry industry brigade means an industry brigade in the forestry industry;

ground for disciplinary action has the meaning given by regulation 55;

hazardous material incident means a hazardous material incident or a toxic fire incident the whole or part of which is not a fire;

hearing officer means the Chief Officer or a person who is authorised under regulation 56(3);

junior member has the meaning given in regulation 27(1);

interim restriction means a direction under regulation 58(1);

interim suspension means a suspension under regulation 58(2);

investigator means the Chief Officer or a person who is authorised under regulation 56(1);

member, except in Part 6, means a person who is enrolled by the Authority under section 23(1)(b) of the Act as a volunteer officer or volunteer member of a brigade;

misconduct includes the following—

mobile fire-fighting unit means a vehicle suitably equipped for enabling an industry brigade to respond to and fight a fire;

plantation holdings means land which is used primarily for tree farming or other commercial forestry purposes;

referring officer means the Chief Officer or a person who is authorised under regulation 56(2);

relevant owner, in relation to a forestry industry brigade, has the same meaning as in section 23AA of the Act;

secretary, in relation to a brigade or group of brigades, means a person appointed under regulation 79(1)(a) or (2)(a);

tested end-to-end means to ensure that signal integrity is maintained between the system components and systems in an alarm system;

the Act means the Country Fire Authority Act 1958;

treasurer, in relation to a brigade or group of brigades, means a person appointed under regulation 79(1)(b) or (2)(b);

uniform means an Authority uniform issued to an officer or member but does not include any item of personal protective clothing;

WWC exclusion has the same meaning as in the Worker Screening Act 2020.