Fire Brigades Amendment (False Alarm Charge) Regulation 2009 (NSW)

2009 No 51

New South Wales

Fire Brigades Amendment (False

Alarm Charge) Regulation 2009

under the

Fire Brigades Act 1989

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Fire Brigades Act 1989.

STEVE WHAN, M.P.,

Minister for Emergency Services

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to increase (from $250 to $500) the charge that is payable when a fire brigade responds to an alarm that is afterwards discovered to have been a false alarm and where it is the second or subsequent occasion of any such false alarm during any period of 60 days.

The charge of $250 for a false alarm has not been increased since 1 September 1995. for other services) and 85 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 37 of 13 February 2009, page 977	Page 1
2009 No 51
Clause 1	Fire Brigades Amendment (False Alarm Charge) Regulation 2009

Fire Brigades Amendment (False Alarm Charge)

Regulation 2009

under the

Fire Brigades Act 1989

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fire Brigades Amendment (False Alarm Charge)
Regulation 2009.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2009.

3 Amendment of Fire Brigades Regulation 2008

The Fire Brigades Regulation 2008 is amended by omitting the matter

“$250” from clause 55 and by inserting instead the matter “$500”.

BY AUTHORITY