New South Wales Consolidated Acts(cf former s 17A (2))
This Part applies to and in respect of injury or destruction or loss of or
damage to property sustained within the Commonwealth and its Territories but
outside New South Wales by:
(a) any person referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of "fire fighter" in section 5,
(b) any person referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition, resident in New South Wales, or
(c) any person referred to in paragraph (c) of that definition, resident in New South Wales, if the bush fire referred to in that paragraph was within or partly within or, in the opinion of the Authority, likely to spread to New South Wales,as though the injury, destruction, loss or damage had been sustained in New South Wales.