(1)  Subject to the directions, or with the approval, of the Chief Officer, a brigade chief may, if he thinks fit –

(a) employ any brigade under his command, or allow that brigade to be employed, in the performance of services other than fire-fighting, and use any equipment of the Commission, or allow any such equipment to be used, in the provision of those services; and

(b) hire out or lend to, or make available for the use of, any person, any equipment of the Commission.

(2)  The Commission may fix scales of charges in respect of the hiring out, lending, or making available of any equipment under that subsection.

(3)  Where any equipment is hired out, lent, or made available under subsection (1) , a charge determined in accordance with the scale of charges referred to in subsection (2) is payable to the Commission.

(4)  Where it appears to the Commission that the collection of a charge that has been imposed under this section would cause undue hardship on the person on whom it is imposed, the Commission may waive the whole or any part of the charge.

(5)  Where a brigade is engaged in the performance of services pursuant to subsection (1) , a member of the brigade who participates in the rendering of those services is taken to be engaged in fire-fighting operations for the purposes of section 5 of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 and section 19 of the Asbestos-Related Diseases (Occupational Exposure) Compensation Act 2011 .