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BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 14

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 14

14 .         Certain persons may enter land or building for purposes of Act

        (1)         A person employed in the Department who is authorised by the FES Commissioner so to do, a bush fire liaison officer and a bush fire control officer, designated or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and, subject to subsection (1A), a member of the Police Force, is empowered to enter any land or building at any time to —

            (a)         examine a fire which he has reason to believe has been lit, or maintained, or used in contravention of this Act;

            (b)         examine a fire which he believes is not under proper control;

            (c)         examine fire-breaks on the land;

            (d)         examine anything which he considers to be a fire hazard existing on the land;

            (e)         investigate the cause and origin of a fire which has been burning on the land or building;

            (f)         inspect fire precaution measures taken on the land;

            (g)         investigate and examine the equipment of a bush fire brigade;

            (h)         do all things necessary for the purpose of giving effect to this Act.

        (1A)         Despite subsection (1), a member of the Police Force is not empowered under this section to enter any land or building for any purpose other than those specified in subsection (1)(a), (b) and (e).

        (2)         A bush fire liaison officer or a member of the Police Force exercising the power conferred by subsection (1)(e) may remove from the land or building, and keep possession of, anything which may tend to prove the origin of the fire.

        [Section 14 amended: No. 11 of 1963 s. 5; No. 65 of 1977 s. 11 and 47; No. 60 of 1992 s. 8; No. 42 of 1998 s. 16; No. 38 of 2002 s. 20; No. 19 of 2010 s. 52(4); No. 22 of 2012 s. 50.]

[Divisions 3 and 4 (s. 15-16E) deleted: No. 42 of 1998 s. 11(1).]

[Division 1 deleted: No. 65 of 1977 s. 12.]