Careless Use of Fire Act 1943 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

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No. 1 of 1943.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Careless Use of Fire Ordinance

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T ) E it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the
^ J 3 Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal
^pxecut ive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the

Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat of

Government (Administration) Act 1910-1940, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Careless Use of snorttitie

Fire Ordinance 1943.*

(2.) The Careless Use of Fire Ordinance 1936-1942 is in this

Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance,

may be cited as the Careless Use of Fire Ordinance 1936-1943.

2. Section six of the Principal Ordinance is amended by insert- Penalty for 1 J

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ing, after the word "material", the words , or remove any live to growing
coal, hot ashes or other burning material from any motor vehicle

which carries equipment for generating producer gas,".

3. Section ten of the Principal Ordinance is amended—	lighting ares
for burning oil'

(a) by inserting in sub-section (2.), after the word Puri*">es-

" burns", the words " or causes or permits to be

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(b) by inserting in that sub-section, after the word " land " (second occurring), the words ", and any person, whether authorized by the owner or not, who burns any inflammable material on any such land.".

4. After section ten of the Principal Ordinance the following

Sections are inserted:—

" 10A. During the period commencing on the first day of Fires to be

November in any year and ending on the last day of February '
in the following year, the owner of any land outside the City area
or, in his absence, any person employed by him on that land, shall,
mmediately he becomes aware of an outbreak of fire on that land

' r on any unleasecl land the property of the Commonwealth

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th January , 1943.

adjacent thereto, notify the Chief Fire Control Officer thereof, and shall, if the outbreak is on the first-mentioned land, use all means in his power to extinguish that outbreak. #

Penalty: Fifty pounds or imprisonment for three months.

Discharge of	" 1 0 B . — (1.) A person shall not on any street, road, lane or which fire or sparks may be emitted except into water or a fire- place or a hole below the level of the surrounding ground capable of readily and completely receiving the live coals, hot ashes or burning material.
live coals from
motor vehicles	thoroughfare or on any other land, discharge from any motor
fitted with gas
producer	vehicle any live coals, hot ashes or other burning material from
equipment.

" (2.) A person so discharging live coals, hot ashes or burning

material into any such fireplace or hole in the ground shall forth-^^ with so saturate with water the matter discharged as to extinjniisl^P wholly any fire or sparks.

Penalty: Fifty pounds or imprisonment for three months.".

Dated this twelfth day of January, 1943.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. S. COLLINGS

Minister of State for the Interior.

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.