Western Australian Current Regulations

BUSH FIRES REGULATIONS 1954 - REG 39A

39A .         Motor vehicles, use of in crops etc.

        (1)         A person shall not operate any motor vehicle on land, the whole or any part of which is under crop or pasture or stubble, if —

            (a)         the exhaust pipes of the vehicle are not clean, sound and free from gas leaks;

            (b)         there is emitted from the vehicle any smoke, carbon, sparks or oily substance the emission of which could be prevented by the fitting of any available appliance designed to prevent that emission.

        (2)         A person operating a motor vehicle within the district of a local government shall comply with any requisition of the local government or a bush fire control officer which is made under the Act and communicated to him by an officer of the local government or the bush fire control officer.

        [Regulation 39A inserted: Gazette 21 Jan 1957 p. 88; amended: Gazette 22 Dec 1998 p. 6858.]

[ 39AA .         Inserted: Gazette 26 Oct 1962 p. 3482; disallowed: Gazette 30 Nov 1962 p. 3838.]