BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27C
BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27C
27C . Vandalism
(1) A person who,
except by lawful authority, moves, uses, interferes with, damages or destroys
anything provided by the FES Commissioner, a local government, a bush fire
control officer, or a bush fire brigade, for preventing, controlling, or
extinguishing, bush fires, commits an offence.
Penalty: $5 000.
(2) A court convicting
an offender of an offence against subsection (1) may assess the amount of
expense of replacing, or as the case may be, of repairing or restoring,
anything the subject matter of the offence, and order the offender to pay the
amount to the FES Commissioner, or, as the case may be, the local government,
bush fire control officer, or bush fire brigade, in addition to or without
imposing a penalty on the offender.
[Section 27C inserted: No. 35 of 1957 s. 6;
amended: No. 8 of 1987 s. 8; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 42 of 1998 s. 16; No. 38
of 2002 s. 39; No. 22 of 2012 s. 69.]