BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27B
BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27B
27B . False alarms
(1) A person who,
knowing it is false, gives a false alarm of fire to a person employed in the
Department, an agent of the FES Commissioner or an employee or agent of a
local government, or to a member of a bush fire brigade, or to a bush fire
liaison officer, bush fire control officer, or authorised CALM Act officer
employed in connection with any forest, commits an offence.
Penalty: $5 000.
(2) A court convicting
an offender of an offence of giving a false alarm of fire against subsection
(1), may assess the amount of any expenses needlessly incurred by the FES
Commissioner or any local government, bush fire brigade, or other body or
person, as a result of the false alarm, and order the offender to pay the
amount so assessed to the FES Commissioner, local government, brigade, body,
or person by which or by whom the expenses were so incurred, in addition to or
without imposing a penalty on the offender.
[Section 27B inserted: No. 35 of 1957 s. 6;
amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 65 of 1977 s. 47 and 48; No. 8 of 1987
s. 8; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 42 of 1998 s. 16; No. 38 of 2002 s. 39 and
40(2); No. 22 of 2012 s. 57 and 69.]