New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 50

50 Bush Fire Management Committees

(1) The Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee must constitute a Bush Fire Management Committee for the whole of the area of any local authority for which a rural fire district is constituted.

(1A) The Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee must constitute a Bush Fire Management Committee for the area of a local authority for which a fire district is constituted if there is a reasonable risk of bush fires in that area.

(2) The Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee may constitute a Bush Fire Management Committee for a part of the State other than a rural fire district or a fire district.

(3) Committees may be constituted for separate rural fire districts or groups of rural fire districts and for separate fire districts or groups of fire districts.

(4) A Bush Fire Management Committee is to be constituted in accordance with the regulations.