Bush Fires (Infringements) Amendment Regulations 2018 (WA)

18 September 2018 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 3511

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

FE301

Bush Fires Act 1954

Bush Fires (Infringements) Amendment

Regulations 2018

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.       Citation

These regulations are the Bush Fires (Infringements) Amendment Regulations 2018.
2.	Commencement These regulations come into operation as follows —

(a) regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these

regulations are published in the Gazette;

(b) the rest of the regulations — on the day after that day.

3.      Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Bush Fires (Infringements)
Regulations 1978.

commissioned officer of the Police Force;

4.      Regulation 4 amended

Delete regulation 4(b), (c) and (d) and insert:

(b)

in the case of an infringement notice issued by a person employed in the Department for the purposes of this Act — the FES Commissioner or a person employed in the Department authorised by the FES Commissioner;

(c) in the case of an infringement notice issued by
a member of the Police Force — any

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(d) in the case of an infringement notice issued by
an authorised CALM Act officer — the chief
executive officer of the department of the
Public Service principally assisting the Minister
in the administration of the Conservation and
Land Management Act 1984.

5.      First Schedule amended

In the First Schedule after item 2 insert:

2A	Section 22B(2)	Offences relating to fires in the open air during total fire ban	1 000
2B	Section 22C(5)	Failure to observe and carry out the conditions of an exemption from section 22B	1 000

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.