New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 69

69 Duties of local authority

(1) A fire control officer, or an officer or member of a fire brigade or other person authorised by a local authority, may for the purpose of forming an opinion as to:

(a) whether the local authority should serve a notice under section 66 on the occupier or owner of any land, or

(b) whether or not such a notice has been complied with,

enter during the daytime any part of the land (other than a dwelling-house) that it is necessary to inspect in order to form that opinion.

(2) A local authority that requires an occupier or owner of land to take action under a bush fire hazard reduction notice must give notice in the approved form to such persons or bodies as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) It is a duty of a local authority to keep a record of whether or not bush fire hazard reduction work has been carried out on land within the area of the local authority in accordance with a bush fire hazard reduction notice.

Note: The Land and Environment Court has jurisdiction to hear and dispose of proceedings under this Act. See section 20 of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 .