New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FIRE BRIGADES ACT 1989 - SECT 6

6 Duty to deal with fires and hazardous material incidents

(1) It is the duty of the Commissioner to take all practicable measures for preventing and extinguishing fires and protecting and saving life and property in case of fire in any fire district.

(2) It is the duty of the Commissioner to take all practicable measures:

(a) for protecting and saving life and property endangered by hazardous material incidents, and

(b) for confining or ending such an incident, and

(c) for rendering the site of such an incident safe.