Northern Territory Numbered Acts

BUSHFIRES MANAGEMENT ACT 2016 (NO 14 OF 2016) - SECT 73

    (1)     A person commits an offence if:

    (a)     the person intentionally lights a fire (other than a small fire) in the open air; and

    (b)     the fire is:

        (i)     within a fire protection zone; or

        (ii)     within a fire danger area during a fire danger period; and

    (c)     the person is not authorised by a permit to light the fire and is reckless in relation to that circumstance.

Maximum penalty:     500 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years.

    (2)     Strict liability applies to subsection (1)(b).

    (3)     For this section, a person is only authorised by a permit to do a thing if any conditions set out in the permit for the doing of that thing are complied with.