BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27D

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 27D

27D .         Requirements for carriage and deposit of incendiary material

        (1)         In this section incendiary material means hot or burning ash, cinders, hot furnace refuse, or any combustible matter that is burning.

        (2)         A person shall not use a motor vehicle, or cause it to be used, for the carriage of incendiary material unless —

            (a)         it is used with a metal container that totally encloses, and prevents the escape of, the incendiary material; and

            (b)         it is used in accordance with and subject to any directions or requirements of a local government, a bush fire control officer, a bush fire liaison officer, or an authorised CALM Act officer that apply to the carriage of incendiary material.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        (3)         A person shall not deposit incendiary material, or cause it to be deposited, on any land unless —

            (a)         it is deposited with the prior approval of the bush fire control officer of the local government for the district in which the land is situated; and

            (b)         it is deposited in accordance with and subject to any directions or requirements of a local government, a bush fire control officer, a bush fire liaison officer, or an authorised CALM Act officer that apply to the land; and

            (c)         it is deposited on a part of the land that is immediately surrounded by a fire-break cleared of all bush and other inflammable material to a width of at least 3 m.

        Penalty: $1 000.

        [Section 27D inserted: No. 101 of 1969 s. 7; amended: No. 94 of 1972 s. 4 (as amended: No. 83 of 1973 s. 3); No. 65 of 1977 s. 47 and 48; No. 8 of 1987 s. 8; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 38 of 2002 s. 40(1).]