Bush Fires (Infringements) Amendment Regulations 1990 (WA)

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GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA

the day on which they are published in the Government Gazette.

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BUSH FIRES ACT 1954
BUSH FIRES (INFRINGEMENTS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1990

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.
Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Bush Fires (Infringements) Amend-

ment Regulations 1990.
Corn mencement

2. These regulations shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after

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First Schedule repealed and a schedule substituted
3. The First Schedule to the Bush Fires (Infringements) Regulations* is

repealed and the following schedule is substituted—

First Schedule

Item Regulation or Nature of offence Penalty

Section

Bush Fires Act 1954

1	Section 17 (12)	Setting fire to bush during prohibited	100
burning times
2	Section 18	Offences relating to burning of bush	100
3	Section 22 (3) (a)	Failure to notify and obtain approval of	100
local authority before setting fire to bush on land adjoining exempt land
4	Section 22 (3) (b)	Failure to prepare a fire break in accor-	100
dance with section 22 (3) (b) before set- ting fire to bush on land adjoining exempt land
5	Section	Failure to produce permit to burn	40
24B (3) (a)
6	Section	Failure or refusal to identify person	40
24B (3) (b)	who issued permit to burn
7	Section 25	Offences relating to lighting of fires in	100
the open air
8	Section 25A (4)	Failure to observe and carry out the	100
conditions of an exemption from section 25
9	Section 25A (7)	Lighting a fire contrary to a notice	100
issued under section 25A (5) by a local authority
10	Section 25B (2)	Lighting a fire to destroy garden refuse	100
or the like contrary to the specified conditions
11	Section 26	Failure to carry out burning of pro-	100
claimed plants or refuse thereof in ac- cordance with the regulations
12	Section 26A	Failure to carry out burning of declared	100
plants or refuse thereof in accordance with the regulations
13	Section 27 (1)	Offences relating to the operation of	60
tractors, or self-propelled harvesters, engines, machinery and vehicles during the prohibited and restricted burning times
14	Section 27 (5)	Operation of a tractor or self-propelled	60

harvester without a lire extinguisher

contrary to a notice issued by a local
authority

15	Section 27B (1)	Giving a false alarm of fire	100
16	Section 27C (1)	Vandalism	100
17	Section 27D (2)	Offence related to the carriage of incen-	100
diary material in a motor vehicle
18	Section 27D (3)	Offence relating to the depositing of	100
incendiary material
19	Section 28 (1)	Failure of occupier of land to extinguish	100
a bush fire burning on that land
20	Section 30	Offences relating to the disposal of ciga- rettes, cigars and matches	40
21	Section 33 (3)	Failure of owner or occupier of land to	80
comply with a notice requiring him to take action to plough or clear firebreaks or take other action to prevent the outbreak or spread of bush fires
22	Section 46 (2)	Lighting fire contrary to section 46 or	100
failing to carry out directions of bush fire control officer, local authority or forrest officer
23	Section 47	Lighting a firebreak without direction	100
while bush fire burning

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• Item Regulation or Nature of offence Penalty

Section

Bush Fires Act 1954

24	Section 56 (3)	... Refusal to state name and abode or stating false name and abode	40
25	Section 57	... Obstruction	100
Bush Fires Regulations 1954
26	Regulation 15 (2)	Applying to another bush fire control	100
officer for permit where permit already refused or granted subject to special conditions
27	Regulation 15B (1)	Failure to comply with conditions in	100
regulation 15B in relation to the burn- ing of the bush
28	Regulation	Failure to deliver prescribed notice of	100
19A (1)	intention to burn clover
29	Regulation	Burning clover in an area or at a time	100
19A (2)	other than that specified in a permit
30	Regulation	Failure to have three men in atten-	100
19A (3)	dance during the burning of clover
31	Regulation 21	Burning clover contrary to conditions or	100
requisitions specified in a permit
32	Regulation	Burning clover contrary to a direction	100
21B (2)	given by a bush fire control officer
33	Regulation 22	Failure to notify or report the escape of	60
a fire lit under permit
34	Regulation 22B (1)	Offence relating to burning under sec-	100
tion 24A of the Act in certain parts of the State
35	Regulation 22B (2)	Failure to comply with a requisition of	100
a bush fire control officer relating to burning under section 24A of the Act
36	Regulation 23 (1) and (3)	Offences relating to charcoal burning	100
37	Regulation 37A	Offences relating to operation of bull-	60
dozer or road-grader
38	Regulation 38	Operating harvesting machine or	60
header during prohibited burning times or restricted burning times without fire extinguisher
39	Regulation 38A (3)	Operating or using engines, vehicles,	60
plant or machinery contrary to notice or direction
40	Regulation	Failure to provide plough or other ma-	60
38A (4)	chine or equipment when required by

local authority

41	Regulation	Failure to fit spark arrester to power	60
38B (2)	saw, bag loader or other plant or equip- ment
42	Regulation	Operating power saw, bag loader or	60
38B (3)	other plant or equipment contrary to provisions of, or contrary to any pro- hibition or direction given under, regu- lation 38B
43	Regulation	Operating harvesting machine or	60
38C (1)	header when prohibited
44	Regulation 39	Offences relating to operation of chaff	60
cutting plants
45	Regulation 39A	Offences relating to operation of motor	60
vehicles
46	Regulation 39B	Offences relating to operation of aero-	60
planes
47	Regulation 39C	Offences relating to operation of weld-	60
ing and cutting apparatus
48	Regulation 39D (1)	Offences relating to use of explosives	60
49	Regulation 39D (2)	Failure to comply with directions of	60
bush fire control officers as to use of explosives

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Item Regulation or Nature of offence Penalty

Section

Bush Fires Regulations 1954

50	Regulation 43 (1)	Failure to give prescribed notification to	40
local authority regarding the occurrence of a bush fire
51	Regulation 44 (a)	Failure by owner or occupier of land to	100
give prescribed notice of intention to exercise powers conferred by section 34 of the Act

[*Published in the Gazette of 10 March, 1978 at pp. 702-4. For amendments to 2 November, 1990 seep. 194 of 1989 Index to Legislation of Western Australia.] By His Excellency's Command,

G. PEARCE, Clerk of the Council.