Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The chief officer (fire brigade) may do anything the chief officer considers necessary to make premises safe at or immediately after a fire.
Examples
shoring up, pulling down or destroying a wall or structure that is damaged or made insecure
(2) The chief officer (rural fire service) may do anything the chief officer considers necessary to make premises safe at or immediately after a fire in a rural area, other than a fire that is in a building if a member of the fire brigade is present.
Note 1 The rural fire service may assist the fire brigade in the exercise of its functions in relation to fires in buildings in rural areas.
Note 2 An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).
(3) An amount of expenses incurred by the chief officer in doing anything mentioned in subsection (1) may be recovered by the Territory as a debt owing to the Territory by the owner of the premises .
(4) In this section:
"owner", of a wall or structure, includes the occupier of the land on which
the wall or structure is situated.
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