BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 36

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 36

36 .         Local government may expend moneys in connection with control and extinguishment of bush fires

                A local government may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other Act —

            (a)         purchase and maintain appliances, equipment, and apparatus for the prevention, control and extinguishment of bush fires;

            (b)         clear a street, road or reserve vested in it or under its control, of bush, and other inflammable material, for the purpose of preventing the occurrence or spread of a fire;

        [(c)         deleted]

            (d)         establish and maintain bush fire brigades as a part of its organisation for the prevention, control, and extinguishment of bush fires;

            (e)         use any vehicle in controlling or extinguishing a bush fire or in the attempting so to do but the local government must pay to the owner or hirer of the vehicle, in respect of any damage done to a tyre of that vehicle while it was being so utilized, an amount assessed by an employee of the local government authorised by it to assess the cost of that damage;

            (f)         assist the occupier of farm lands within its district to acquire appliances, equipment and apparatus for the prevention, control, and extinguishment of bush fires upon or threatening his land, including the sale, loan or exchange to the occupier of appliances, equipment and apparatus belonging to the local government.

        [Section 36 amended: No. 11 of 1963 s. 17; No. 51 of 1979 s. 5; No. 60 of 1992 s. 19; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 57 of 1997 s. 26(2).]

[ 37.         Deleted: No. 28 of 2016 s. 5.]