Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Country Fire Authority Act 1958 - SECT 52

Appointment of regional fire prevention committees

52. Appointment of regional fire prevention committees



(1) The Authority may appoint a regional fire prevention committee for each
region (not being a region consisting wholly of urban districts).





(2) Each such committee shall consist of-

   (a)  the officer appointed by the Authority as the officer in charge of the
        fire control region, who shall be the executive officer of the
        committee;



   (b)  two representatives (appointed by the Authority after election in the
        prescribed manner by delegates selected in the prescribed manner of
        each brigade in the group concerned) of each group of brigades
        operating within the region;

   (ba) not more than two representatives (appointed by the Authority after
        nomination by the relevant owner or group of relevant owners who
        formed each industry brigade in the group concerned) of each group of
        industry brigades operating within the region;

   (c)  not more than four representatives of the Secretary appointed by the
        Authority upon nomination by the Secretary;





   (d)  not more than two representatives (appointed by the Authority after
        election in the prescribed manner by the municipal councils concerned)
        of the municipal councils whose municipal districts are wholly or
        partly within the region; and



   (e)  any person appointed under subsection (2A) as a member of the
        committee.



(2A) The Authority shall, upon the request of a committee, appoint as a member
of that committee a representative (nominated by the corporation concerned) of
any public statutory corporation specified by the committee.

(2B) The Authority shall appoint a deputy for each representative of-

   (a)  each group of brigades operating within the region;



   (b)  the Secretary;





   (c)  the municipal councils whose municipal districts are wholly or partly
        within the region; and



   (d)  each public statutory corporation specified pursuant to subsection
        (2A)-

who shall, at any meeting of the committee from which the appropriate
representative member or all appropriate representative members (as the case
requires) is or are to be absent, act in the place of that member or those
members (as the case requires).

(2C) Each deputy appointed under subsection (2B) shall be appointed only after
being elected or nominated in the same manner as the representative member or
members (as the case requires) in whose place the deputy is to act.

(3) The chairman of each such committee shall be elected annually by the
members thereof.

(4) A regional fire prevention committee is deemed to be the same body despite
any change to its membership arising from the amendment of this section by
section 5(1) of the Fire and Emergency Services Acts (Amendment) Act 1998.