Fire Brigade (Administration ) (Amendment) Act 1993 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Fire Brigade (Administration)

(Amendment) Act 1993

No. 51 of 1993

An Act to amend the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974

[Notified in ACT Gazette S165:  27 August 1993]

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Fire Brigade (Administration) (Amendment) Act 1993.

Commencement

2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.

Principal Act

3.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974.1

Insertion

4.  After section 31 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 4 of Part III:

Excess members

“32.  (1)  The Commissioner may, by notice in writing given to a member, retire the member from the Brigade.

“(2)  The Commissioner shall not retire a member under subsection (1) unless—

(a)the Commissioner is satisfied that the member is an excess member; and

(b)the member has consented to the exercise of the power.

“(3)  A member is an excess member for the purposes of paragraph (2) (a) if—

(a)the member is included in a class of members employed in the Brigade, being a class comprising a greater number of members than is necessary for the efficient and economical working of the Brigade; or

(b)the services of the member can not be effectively used because of technological or other changes in work methods of the Brigade or changes in the nature, extent or organisation of the functions of the Brigade.”.

NOTE

1. Reprinted as at 2 December 1992.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 17 June 1993]

©  Australian Capital Territory 1993