New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 38

38 Functions of fire control officers

(1) A fire control officer appointed under this Part has all the powers and immunities conferred on an officer in charge of a rural fire brigade.

(2) A fire control officer:

(a) has the supervision and direction of the functions exercised by or under this Act by all rural fire brigades and groups of rural fire brigades in the rural fire district for which the fire control officer has been appointed and of the officers of the brigades, and

(b) has the right to use any fire fighting apparatus in the rural fire district other than fire fighting apparatus under the control of the authority responsible for managed land, and

(c) must inspect, or cause to be inspected, at least once each year all fire fighting apparatus in the rural fire district other than fire fighting apparatus under the control of the authority responsible for managed land, and

(d) must take or cause to be taken all necessary measures for suppressing fires in the rural fire district and protecting and saving life and property in case of fire, and

(4) A fire control officer may exercise a function referred to in subsection (2) (d) only if the fire control officer (and any member of the Service assisting the fire control officer in the exercise of the function) complies with the conditions (if any) imposed on the exercise of the function specified in any relevant bush fire management plan or other relevant plan of the authority responsible for the managed land of which the fire control officer is aware.