New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION (BUSH FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE SERVICES) ACT 1987 - SECT 18

18 Exclusion from Part-fire districts

(cf former s 17A (1))

(1) In this section:
"fire district" means a fire district constituted under the Fire Brigades Act 1989 .

(2) This section does not operate to exclude injury, damage, loss or destruction from this Part if it relates to a bush fire to or from which a rural fire brigade was proceeding, or at which a rural fire brigade operated or was in attendance, for the purpose of the control or suppression of the bush fire.

(3) This Part does not apply to:

(a) an injury received by a fire fighter arising out of or in the course of fighting a bush fire, or

(b) personal property damage to a fire fighter while fighting a bush fire,

if the place at which the fire fighter was fighting the bush fire was within a fire district.

(4) This Part does not apply to:

(a) an injury received by a fire fighter arising out of or in the course of a relevant journey,

(b) personal property damage to a fire fighter in the course of a relevant journey, or

(c) the destruction or loss of or damage to any vehicle used for conveying a fire fighter on a relevant journey,

if the bush fire to or from which the relevant journey was made was within a fire district.

(5) This Part does not apply to the destruction or loss of or damage to any vehicle, equipment or thing used in connection with fire fighting at or near the scene of a bush fire and owned by or in the possession or custody of a fire fighter if the destruction, loss or damage was sustained within a fire district.