BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 56
BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 56
56 . Duties of police officers, bush fire control officers etc.
(1) It is the duty of
—
(a) a
member of the Police Force, a person employed in the Department for the
purposes of this Act, a bush fire control officer appointed or designated
under this Act and an authorised CALM Act officer, who finds a person
committing an offence against this Act to demand from the person his name and
place of abode and to require him to produce a permit or authorisation under
the authority of which it is claimed a fire is lit;
(b) a
bush fire control officer if he obtains the name and place of abode of a
person as provided in paragraph (a) to report the facts of the offence and the
name and place of abode of the person who committed the offence as soon as
conveniently may be to the local government in whose district the offence is
committed.
(2) A person who
refuses to state his name and place of abode when required by a person
employed in the Department for the purposes of this Act, a bush fire control
officer appointed or designated under this Act, or an authorised CALM Act
officer so to do, may without any other warrant than this Act be apprehended
by the person requiring his name and place of abode under the provisions of
this section and detained until he can be dealt with according to law.
(3) A person who in
contravention of this section refuses to state his name and place of abode, or
states a false name or a false place of abode, is guilty of an offence.
Penalty: $1 000.
[Section 56 amended: No. 11 of 1963 s. 23; No. 113
of 1965 s. 8(1); No. 65 of 1977 s. 48; No. 8 of 1987 s. 8; No. 60 of 1992
s. 12; No. 14 of 1996 s. 4; No. 42 of 1998 s. 16; No. 38 of 2002 s. 39 and
40(1); No. 59 of 2004 s. 141; No. 22 of 2012 s. 65.]