BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 14A

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 14A

14A .         Powers and duties under section 13 not affected by certain powers under Emergency Management Act 2005

        (1)         This section has effect despite the Emergency Management Act 2005 section 8(1).

        (2)         The exercise of powers and the performance of duties by a bush fire liaison officer or another person on being authorised to take control of all operations in relation to a bush fire under section 13(4) or (5) are not limited or otherwise affected by —

            (a)         a hazard management agency being prescribed in relation to fire under the Emergency Management Act 2005 ; or

            (b)         the powers that may be exercised under that Act by the hazard management agency’s hazard management officers as the result of the declaration of an emergency situation under that Act.

        [Section 14A inserted: No. 25 of 2009 s. 6.]