RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 133
Powers affecting land near certain bush fires
RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 133
Powers affecting land near certain bush fires
133 Powers affecting land near certain bush fires
(1) An authorised officer
of a fire fighting authority may enter land within the prescribed distance
from the land for which the fire fighting authority is responsible and do all
such things as are reasonably necessary to suppress, or prevent the spread of,
a bush fire from the land to the land for which the fire fighting authority is
responsible.
(2) An authorised officer may take the action referred to in
subsection (1) whether or not the authorised officer has been requested to
assist in suppressing or preventing the spread of the fire by the officer in
charge of the land. However, if the authorised officer takes such action any
arrangements set out in any bush fire management plan applying to the land or
agreed with the authority responsible for the land must be observed.
(3) In
this section--
"prescribed distance" from land for which a fire fighting authority is
responsible means--
(a) 8 kilometres from the land, or
(b) if another
distance is specified in a bush fire management plan applying to land in the
vicinity of the land for which the fire fighting authority is responsible--the
distance specified.
