New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 95

95 Permit not required for fires lit by public authorities

(1) Nothing in this Division requires a public authority or a person acting under the direction of a public authority to hold a permit to light a fire.

(2) However, a public authority--

(a) must not light a fire in any area of an authority (or part of such an area) if it has been notified that a determination referred to in section 93 (b) has been made in respect of the area, and

(b) must not light a fire in any rural fire district unless the fire control officer for the district has been advised that it is to be lit, and

(c) must not light a fire on land in any fire district unless the officer in charge of the fire station that is nearest to the land has been advised that it is to be lit.