Bush Fires (Infringements) Amendment Regulations 1998 (WA)

6860	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	[22 December 1998
BU306*

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954

BUSH FIRES (INFRINGEMENTS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

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

Regulations 1998.

Commencement

2.     These regulations come into operation on the day on which the Bush Fires Amendment

Regulations 1998 come into operation.

Principal regulations

3.     In these regulations the Bush Fires (Infringements) Regulations* are referred to as

the principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette 10 March 1978, pp. 702-4.
For amendments to 19 February 1998 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western
Australia, Table 4, p. 28.]

Regulation 1 repealed and a regulation substituted

4.     Regulation 1 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following regulation is

substituted—

“

Citation

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

Regulations 1978.

”.

Regulation 4 amended

5.     Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended—

(a) in paragraph (a)—

(i)

by deleting “authority” in the 4 places where it occurs and substituting in “ government ”; and

(ii)  by deleting “clerk” and substituting the following— “ chief executive officer ”;

(b)	in paragraph (b) by deleting “Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent or a Chief Liaison Officer” and substituting the following—
“ Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operations Officer ”; and
(c)

in paragraph (d) by deleting “Conservator of Forests, Deputy Conservator of Forests “

Executive Director of the Department of Conservation and Land

Management.

”.

First Schedule amended

6. (1) The First Schedule to the principal regulations is amended in items 3, 9, 14, 22,

40 and 50 by deleting “authority” and substituting the following—

“ government ”.

(2) The First Schedule to the principal regulations is amended by inserting after item

47 the following items—

“

47A	Regulation 39CA (3)	Offences relating to operation	60
and (4)	of bee smoker devices
47B	Regulation 39CA (5)	Failure to comply with directions	60
of bush fire control officer

”.

By Command of the Governor,

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