Bush Fires Amendment Regulations 2000 (WA)

3862 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 118 July 2000

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

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Bush Fires Act 1954

Bush Fires Amendment Regulations 2000

Made by the Administrator in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Bush Fires Amendment
Regulations 2000.

2.            Regulation 39E inserted

After regulation 39D of the Bush Fires Regulations 1954* the

following regulation is inserted -

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39E. Fireworks

(1) For the purposes of section 27A(1)(a)(ii) of the Act, the use of fireworks on land and in the open air is a process likely to create a bush fire danger.

(2) A person shall not use fireworks on land and in the

open air unless -

(a)	all inflammable material on the ground within a radius of 3 metres of any lit fuse or lit firework has been removed;
(b)	at least one fire extinguisher is provided at the place where the fireworks are being used; and
(c)	if the fireworks are being used during prohibited burning times or restricted burning times, that person has given not less than 24 hours' prior notice of the intention to do so -
considers necessary for the prevention of fire on that

(i)     to the bush fire control officer for the district in which the place where the fireworks are being used is situated; and

(ii)     where the place where the fireworks are being used is within 3 kilometres of forest land, to the forest officer in charge of that forest land.

(3) A bush fire control officer may, subject to the

directions, if any, of the local government by which he
was appointed, issue to a person using fireworks upon
land referred to in subregulation (2), or the owner or
occupier of that land, such directions as the officer

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land and the person, owner or occupier, as the case may

be, shall comply with those directions.

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[* Reprinted as approved 11 September 1978, pp. 3373-99.

For amendments to 10 May 2000 see 1999 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 24.]

By Command of the Administrator,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.