New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 62A

62A Performance audit of implementation of bush fire risk management plans

(1) The Commissioner may conduct a performance audit of the implementation of bush fire risk management plans generally in the State or for a specified rural fire district or other part of the State.

(2) The Commissioner may conduct a performance audit on the Commissioner’s own initiative or at the request of the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee under section 48 (2A).

(3) Without limiting the powers the Commissioner may exercise under subsection (1), the Commissioner may make such enquiries as the Commissioner considers fit to determine whether or not bush fire hazard reduction work has been carried out in accordance with any bush fire risk management plan that applies to the land.

(4) The annual report of the Service prepared under the Annual Reports (Departments) Act 1985 must include details of the number, and results, of performance audits carried out under this section in the year to which the report relates.