New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RURAL FIRES REGULATION 2002 - REG 33

33 Bush fire hazard reduction work in default of compliance with notice

If any employees or agents of a local authority or any officers or members of a fire brigade or rural fire brigade are authorised under section 70 of the Act to enter any land and light any fire on land that is within 8 kilometres (or such other distance as may be specified in a bush fire management plan applying to the land) of NPWS land or forestry land, a notification in writing stating the time at which or the period within which such fire is to be lit must, at least 24 hours before the land is to be entered, be sent by the local authority, officer or member to an officer of the National Parks and Wildlife Service or Forestry Commission responsible for the NPWS land or forestry land.