New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) Definitions are contained in the Dictionary at the end of this Act.

Note: Expressions used in this Act (or in a particular provision of this Act) that are defined in the Interpretation Act 1987 have the meanings set out in that Act.

(2) Words and expressions used in the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 and in this Act have the same meanings in this Act as they have in the 1989 Act.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to the extent that the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires.

Note: Some expressions defined in the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 that are used in this Act are:
"combat agency" means the agency identified in Displan as the agency primarily responsible for responding to a particular emergency.
"Displan" means the State Disaster Plan referred to in section 12.
"emergency" means an emergency due to an actual or imminent occurrence (such as fire, flood, storm, earthquake, explosion, accident, epidemic or warlike action) which:

(a) endangers, or threatens to endanger, the safety or health of persons in the State, or

(b) destroys or damages, or threatens to destroy or damage, property in the State,

being an emergency which requires a significant and co-ordinated response.
"emergency services organisation" means the Police Service, Fire Brigades, Rural Fire Brigades, Ambulance Service, State Emergency Service, Volunteer Rescue Association or any other agency which manages or controls an accredited rescue unit.