New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RURAL FIRES REGULATION 2002 - REG 34

34 Notice of intention to burn off or burn firebreak

(1) For the purposes of section 86 of the Act, the prescribed notice is a written or oral notice that includes particulars of the location, purpose, period and time of the fire proposed to be lit.

(2) The notice must be given to each of the persons referred to in subclause (3) at least 24 hours before the fire is lit.

(3) For the purposes of section 86 of the Act, the prescribed persons are:

(a) the occupiers (or, if there are no occupiers, the owners) of all land contiguous to, or that is separated merely by a lane, road or waterway (whether fenced or unfenced) from, the land on which the fire is to be lit, and

(b) if the land on which the fire is to be lit is in a rural fire district, the fire control officer for the district, and

(c) if the land on which the fire is to be lit is in a fire district, the officer in charge of the fire station that is nearest to the land.