Bush Fires Act 1954 (WA)

Western Australia

Western Australia

Bush Fires Act 1954

An Act to make better provision for diminishing the dangers resulting from bush fires, for the prevention, control and extinguishment of bush fires, for the repeal of the Bush Fires Act 19371 and for other purposes.

[Heading inserted: No. 19 of 2010 s. 43(3)(a).]

This Act may be cited as the Bush Fires Act 1954.

[2. Deleted: No. 8 of 1987 s. 3.]

[Heading deleted: No. 19 of 2010 s. 43(3)(b).]

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation.

• (1)

  This Act does not affect the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act 1942, or of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.

• (2)

  This Act is to be construed so as not to limit or restrict in any way the effect and operation of the provisions of either of those Acts.

[Section 4 amended: No. 38 of 2002 s. 16; No. 19 of 2010 s. 52(4).]

[5. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984 s. 7(4)(f).]

[6. Deleted: No. 38 of 2002 s. 17.]

• (1)

  In this Act unless the context otherwise indicates or requires —

adjoining, when used with respect to 2 or more pieces of land, extends to pieces of land which are separated only by a road or roads or by a railway or by a watercourse;

authorised CALM Act officer means —

• (a)

  a wildlife officer who is authorised for the purposes of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 section 45(4)(b); or

• (b)

  a forest officer, ranger or conservation and land management officer who is authorised for the purposes of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 section 45(5A)(b);

bush includes trees, bushes, plants, stubble, scrub, and undergrowth of all kinds whatsoever whether alive or dead and whether standing or not standing and also a part of a tree, bush, plant, or undergrowth, and whether severed therefrom or not so severed. The term does not include sawdust, and other waste timber resulting from the sawmilling of timber in a sawmill whilst the sawdust and other waste timber remains upon the premises of the sawmill in which the sawmilling is carried on;

bush fire brigade means a bush fire brigade for the time being registered in a register kept pursuant to section 41;

CALM Act CEO has the meaning given to CEO by section 3 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984;

CALM Act Department has the meaning given to Department by section 3 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984;

Department has the meaning given in the FES Act section 3;

employed in the Department means employed or engaged in the Department in accordance with the FES Act section 20(1);

FES Act means the Fire and Emergency Services Act 1998