Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Metropolitan Fire Brigades Act 1958 - SECT 70

Owner to give information as to insurance

70. Owner to give information as to insurance





(1) The owner of a house or building in the metropolitan district where a fire
occurs shall on being requested so to do by any member of the Board or by the
Chief Officer or any employee of the Board make a statutory declaration to the
member, officer or employee as to whether such house or building is insured or
not, and at the like request shall declare to the member, officer or employee
full particulars of the insurance (if any) thereon including the name of the
company with which the insurance is effected and the amount of such insurance
and the details of any excess applying to that insurance.





(2) The owner of any personal property which is in any house or building or on
any premises in the metropolitan district where a fire occurs or which is
destroyed or damaged by fire shall at the like request make a statutory
declaration giving the like information and the like particulars as are
required to be given with respect to a house or building as hereinbefore
provided.

(3) Every person who refuses or fails forthwith to comply with any such
request as aforesaid or who wilfully gives any false information or who
wilfully gives any incorrect particulars in a statutory declaration with
regard to such insurance as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty of not more
than 5 penalty units.