New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 62H

62H Protection from personal liability for owners of neighbourhood safer places

(1) The owner or occupier of a neighbourhood safer place is not liable for the death of, or injury to, any person arising from the use of the neighbourhood safer place as a shelter from a bush fire.

(2) Any liability for the death of, or injury to, a person arising from the use of a neighbourhood safer place as a shelter from a bush fire that would, but for subsection (1), attach to the owner or occupier of land attaches instead to the Crown.