New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 62K

62K Fire Trail Standards

(1) The Commissioner may make Fire Trail Standards.

(2) The Fire Trail Standards are to provide standards for fire trails on land throughout the State, and in particular to provide, as far as practicable, practical networks of fire trails.

(3) Without limitation, the Fire Trail Standards may--

(a) relate to--

(i) the structure and form of fire access and fire trail plans, and

(ii) the classification, length, width, gradient, signage, construction standards and maintenance of fire trails, and

(b) require a fire access and fire trail plan to include a treatment register for fire trails that is approved by the Commissioner from time to time.

(4) The Fire Trail Standards must be published in the Gazette and on the NSW Rural Fire Service website.

(5) The Fire Trail Standards may--

(a) apply generally or be limited in their application by reference to specified exceptions or factors, or

(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or

(c) authorise any matter or thing to be from time to time determined, applied or regulated by any specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.

(6) The reference in this section to a treatment register for fire trails is a reference to a register that specifies action to be taken or records action taken (or both) to ensure a fire trail complies with relevant Fire Trail Standards.

(7) The reference in this section to making Fire Trail Standards extends to changing them by varying or replacing them from time to time.

(8) A change to a requirement under the Fire Trail Standards does not apply to fire trails to which a then existing direction under section 62L or a then existing agreement under section 62M applies, unless the standard is less onerous in its effect or the owner and occupier (if any) of the land concerned consent to the change.