New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 74D

74D Investigation of complaint

(1) The Commissioner or local authority must investigate the bush fire hazard complaint as soon as practicable after it is received.

(2) The Commissioner or local authority may investigate the complaint as the Commissioner or local authority thinks fit.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the Commissioner or a local authority (or a person authorised by the Commissioner or local authority) may, for the purpose of forming an opinion as to whether a bush fire hazard exists on the land to which the complaint relates, 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.

(4) The Commissioner or local authority may decline to deal with a complaint, or dismiss a complaint, that the Commissioner or local authority considers to be vexatious, misconceived, frivolous or lacking in substance.

(5) The Commissioner or local authority is to notify the complainant if the Commissioner or local authority declines to deal with, or dismisses, the complaint.