New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 52

52 Bush Fire Management Committees to prepare plans

(1) Each Bush Fire Management Committee must, in accordance with this Division, prepare and submit to the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee a draft of each of the following kinds of bush fire management plans for the rural fire district or other part of the State for which it is constituted--

(a) a plan of operations, and

(b) a bush fire risk management plan.

(2) Draft bush fire management plans of both kinds must be prepared and submitted to the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee by a Bush Fire Management Committee within 12 months after the constitution of the Bush Fire Management Committee and--

(a) in the case of a plan of operations--within each successive 2 year period following the constitution of the Committee, and

(b) in the case of a bush fire risk management plan--within each successive 5 year period following the constitution of the Committee.

(3) Each Bush Fire Management Committee must, in accordance with this Division, prepare and submit to the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee a draft fire access and fire trail plan for the rural fire district or other part of the State for which it is constituted.

(4) A draft fire access and fire trail plan must be prepared and submitted to the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee by a Bush Fire Management Committee--

(a) within the period (the
"original period" ) notified to it by the Bush Fire Co-ordinating Committee, and

(b) thereafter within each successive 5 year period following the end of the original period.