Fire and Emergency Services Amendment Regulations 2014 (WA)

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Fire and Emergency Services Act 1998

Fire and Emergency Services Amendment

Regulations 2014

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.           Citation

These regulations are the Fire and Emergency Services
Amendment Regulations 2014.

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 Fire and Emergency Services Regulations 1998.
4.	Regulation 17 inserted After regulation 16 insert:

17.          Disclosure of information (Act s. 39(2)(d))

For the purposes of section 39(2)(d) of the Act, a person may disclose information to a police officer for any of the following purposes —

(a)	the investigation of a fire or explosion;
(b)	the investigation of a fire-related death;

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(c) the investigation of a suspected offence under

any of the following provisions —

(i) The Criminal Code section 171, 444, 445A, 445, 454 or 455;

(ii)     the Bush Fires Act 1954 section 22B, 27B or 32.

R. KENNEDY, Clerk of the Executive Council.