Western Australian Current Regulations

BUSH FIRES REGULATIONS 1954 - REG 38C

38C .         Harvesters, power to prohibit use of on certain days in restricted or prohibited burning times

        (1)         A local government may declare that the use by a person of any harvesting machinery on any land under crop during the whole or part of any —

            (a)         Sunday; or

            (b)         public holiday,

                in the whole or a specified part of the district of that local government during the prohibited burning times or the restricted burning times is prohibited unless the person has obtained the written consent of a bush fire control officer of that local government.

        (2)         A declaration under subregulation (1) —

            (a)         shall be made by notice in a newspaper circulating in the area affected by the prohibition; and

            (b)         may be revoked or varied in the manner in which it was made,

                and the local government shall forward a copy of a declaration or of a revocation or variation of a declaration to the FES Commissioner.

        (3)         A person who contravenes a declaration made under subregulation (1) commits an offence.

        Penalty: $5 000.

        [Regulation 38C inserted: Gazette 27 Oct 1989 p. 3898; amended: Gazette 22 Dec 1998 p. 6854 and 6858; 10 Jan 2003 p. 33;31 Oct 2012 p. 5251‑2.]