New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FIRE BRIGADES ACT 1989 - SECT 25

25 Duty to recognise authority of officers

(1) Every member of the Police Service and all other persons are to recognise:

(a) the authority of the Commissioner and any member of a fire brigade acting under the Commissioner’s orders, and

(b) the authority of the officer in charge at a place at which a fire brigade is present.

(2) It is the duty of every member of the Police Service to support the authority of such a person and to assist him or her in enforcing compliance with any orders given under this Act or the regulations.

(3) This section applies only in respect of the protection of persons from injury or death, or of property from damage, when the persons are or the property is endangered by fire or a hazardous material incident.