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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.]