Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Country Fire Authority Act 1958 - SECT 54

Appointment of municipal fire prevention committees

54. Appointment of municipal fire prevention committees



(1) The Authority may appoint a municipal fire prevention committee in respect
of any area being within the country area of Victoria and being the municipal
district or part of the municipal district of a municipal council.



(2) Each municipal fire prevention committee shall consist of-



   (a)  the fire prevention officer of the municipal council, who shall be
        chairman and executive officer of the committee;



   (b)  one representative (appointed by the Authority after election in the
        prescribed manner by the members of the brigade) of each urban or
        rural brigade operating within the area;

   (ba) one representative (appointed by the Authority after nomination by the
        relevant owner or group of relevant owners who formed the industry
        brigade) of each industry brigade operating within the area;





   (c)  one representative (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 area;

   (d)  a representative of the municipal council appointed by the Authority
        upon nomination by the council;





   (e)  (where there is adjacent to the area any part of a forest or any part
        of a national park) a representative of the Secretary appointed by the
        Authority upon nomination by the Secretary; and









   (f)  any person appointed under subsection (3) as a member of the
        committee.



(3) The Authority shall, upon the request of a committee, appoint as a member
of that committee-

   (a)  a representative (nominated by the corporation concerned) of any
        public statutory corporation specified by the committee; and

   (b)  a representative (nominated by the group concerned) of any local
        interest group specified by the committee.

(3A) A representative cannot be appointed unless he or she has consented in
writing to be appointed.



(4) For each member of a committee appointed under subsection (2)(b), (c), (d)
or (e) or (3) the Authority shall appoint a deputy to attend and act in the
place of the member at any meeting of the committee from which the member is
to be absent.

(5) Each deputy appointed under subsection (4) shall be appointed only after
being elected or nominated in the same manner as the member in whose place the
deputy is to act.

(6) A municipal 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 6(1) of the Fire and Emergency Services Acts (Amendment)
Act 1998.