Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts Australian Capital Territory Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) A person shall not on any street, road, lane or thoroughfare or on any other land, discharge from any motor vehicle any live coals, hot ashes or other burning material from which fire or sparks may be emitted except into water or a fireplace or a hole below the level of the surrounding ground capable of readily and completely receiving the live coals, hot ashes or burning material.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) A person so discharging live coals, hot ashes or burning material into any such fireplace or hole in the ground shall so saturate with water the matter discharged as to extinguish wholly any fire or sparks.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.