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BUSH FIRES REGULATIONS 1954 - REG 19

19 .         Permit to burn clover, applying for and issue of

        (1)         Every application such as is mentioned in regulation 18 shall be sent or delivered so as to be received by the authorised officer at least 7 days prior to the day for which the permit is sought and shall be accompanied by such fee, not exceeding $20.00, as the local government may, by local law, from time to time prescribe.

        (2)         The authorised officer shall, after the receipt of an application to burn clover, enter upon and inspect the land in respect of which the permit is sought and, upon being satisfied that the burning can be conducted with safety, may, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation and the provisions of regulations 20 and 21, issue a permit in the form of Form 5 in the Appendix.

        (3)         The authorised officer shall specify in a permit the day, not being a Sunday and not necessarily the day for which the permit was sought, on which burning is authorised and shall, subject to subregulation (4), specify such time between the hours of 4 p.m. and midnight, as he thinks fit or as the local government may, from time to time, direct, at which burning may be commenced.

        (4)         The FES Commissioner may, by notice in the Government Gazette authorise the issue of permits for the burning of clover, in any district or part of a district, at a time prior to 4 p.m. and, in that event a permit may, subject to the directions of the local government for that district or that part of a district, specify a time prior to 4 p.m. for the commencement of burning.

        [Regulation 19 inserted: Gazette 26 Feb 1965 p. 707; amended: Gazette 10 Mar 1978 p. 706; 22 Dec 1998 p. 6854 and 6858; 10 Jan 2003 p. 32; 31 Oct 2012 p. 5251‑2.]



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