Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence against this Act if the person does or, as the case may be, fails to do any of the following acts--
(a) fails to comply with any condition or direction contained in a notification, notice or permit given under this division in respect of the lighting of any fire;
(b) leaves unattended or fails to take reasonable measures to extinguish a fire in such circumstances as to cause or be likely to cause danger from fire to any person or property or to the environment;
(c) not acting in accordance with a notification, notice or permit given under this division, discards, propels or places any burning article or substance (or anything otherwise capable of causing fire)--
(i) thereby causing a fire that endangers or is likely to endanger any person or property or the environment; or
(ii) in such circumstances as to be likely to cause a fire that would be likely to endanger any person or property or the environment;
(d) wilfully and unlawfully destroys, damages, removes, covers or otherwise interferes with a notice relating to the lighting of fires displayed by the commissioner or by a rural fire brigade for the purposes of this Act;
(e) knowingly provides any false or misleading information in respect of an application for a permit under section 65;
(f) without the consent of the commissioner, alters any particular shown in a permit granted under section 65.
Maximum penalty--
(a) if the offence is committed during a state of fire emergency at a place to which the declaration of emergency applies--250 penalty units or 1 year's imprisonment; or
(b) otherwise--50 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.
(2) In subsection (1)--
property does not include property of the person alleged to have committed the offence in question.