Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

BUSH FIRES REGULATIONS 1954

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART I -- Preliminary  

   1.      Citation  
   3.      Terms used

   PART IV -- Burning during restricted times and prohibited times  

   15.     Permits to burn under s. 18  
   15A.    Bush fire control officer to comply with directions of local government  
   15B.    Obligations of permit holder  
   15C.    Local government may prohibit burning on certain days  
   16.     Term used: authorised officer  
   18.     Application for permit to burn clover  
   19.     Lodgement of application and issue of permit  
   19A.    Obligations of permit holder  
   20.     Local government may prohibit issue of permits  
   21.     Refusal or cancellation of permit, and imposition of permit conditions  
   21A.    Permit holder may be required to advertise burning  
   21B.    Bush fire control officer may postpone burning  
   22.     Permit holder to report escape of fire  
   22A.    Burning in areas of irrigation  
   22B.    Bush not to be burned unless irrigation available  
   23.     Charcoal burning

   PART VA -- Prohibited activities in the open air during total fire ban  

   24A.    Prohibited activities in the open air during total fire ban  
   24B.    Prescribed activity to which section 22B(2) of Act does not apply  
   24C.    Bans for the purposes of r. 24A(5A)

   PART V -- Permit to burn proclaimed or declared plants during prohibited burning times

           Division 1 -- General  

   24.     Term used: authorised officer

           Division 2 -- Permit to burn the refuse of proclaimed plants during prohibited burning times  

   26.     Application for permit  
   27.     Issue of permit  
   28.     Ground to be cleared before burning  
   29.     Plant refuse to be burned in heaps  
   30.     Heaps not to be near brush fence or land boundary  
   31.     Obligations of permit holder  
   32.     Permit holder to report escape of fire

           Division 3 -- Permit to burn proclaimed plants  

   33.     Permit to burn proclaimed plants  
   34.     Permit not to be granted if local government objects  
   35.     Permit may be refused if danger of escape  
   36.     Permit holder to report escape of fire

           Division 4 -- Permit to burn declared plants and refuse thereof  

   36A.    Permit to burn declared plants or plant refuse

   PART VII -- Operations of tractors and engines  

   37.     Tractors  
   37A.    Bulldozers and graders  
   38.     Harvesting machines and headers  
   38A.    Use of engines, vehicles, plant or machinery likely to cause bush fire  
   38B.    Use of plant or equipment activated by internal combustion engine  
   38C.    Prohibition of use of harvesting machinery on certain days  
   38D.    Relationship of certain prohibitions to total fire bans  
   39.     Use of chaff cutting machinery  
   39A.    Use of motor vehicles  
   39B.    Use of aeroplanes

   PART VIIA -- Control of operations likely to create bush fire danger  

   39BA.   Operations likely to cause bush fires  
   39C.    Welding and cutting apparatus  
   39CA.   Operation of bee smoker devices  
   39D.    Explosives  
   39E.    Fireworks

   PART VIII -- Miscellaneous  

   40.     Apportionment of amounts under section 37 of the Act  
   41.     Register of bush fire brigades  
   43.     Notification of bush fires and losses caused  
   44.     Entry onto Crown land etc.  
   45A.    Information to be given when authorised CALM Act officer takes control of operations in relation to bush fire under section 45A of Act  
   45B.    Information to be given when bush fire officer takes control of operations in relation to bush fire under section 45 of Act  
   45.     Extended meaning of conservation land in section 45(1)  
   46.     Breach of regulations an offence
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