Jervis Bay Territory
Rural Fires Amendment Ordinance 2004 (No. 1)1
No. 1 of 20042
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance under the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915.
Dated 16 December 2004
PHILIP JEFFERY
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
JIM LLOYD
Minister for Local Government, Territories and Roads
An Ordinance to amend the Rural Fires Ordinance 2001
1 Name of Ordinance
This Ordinance is the Rural Fires Amendment Ordinance 2004 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
This Ordinance commences on the date of its notification in the Gazette.
3 Amendment of Rural Fires Ordinance 2001
Schedule 1 amends the Rural Fires Ordinance 2001.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(section 3)
[1] Schedule 1, item 31
substitute
31 Subsections 44 (2) and (3)
substitute
(2) A person (the first delegate) to whom powers or functions under this Division have been delegated by the Minister under section 7 may, in writing, delegate any of those powers or functions to another person (the second delegate).
(3) For subsection (2), the second delegate must be an officer or member of the Territory Rural Fire Service, an officer or member of the NSW Rural Fire Service, an officer of the Forestry Commission or an officer of the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
(4) If the first delegate is subject to directions in relation to the exercise of a power or function delegated under subsection (2), the first delegate must give corresponding directions to the second delegate.
(5) A power or function that is exercised or performed by a person under a delegation under subsection (2) is taken, for the Act, to have been exercised or performed by the person who originally delegated the corresponding power or function under section 7.
[2] Schedule 1, item 70
substitute
70 Dictionary, definitions of Fund, insurance company and local authority
omit
[3] Schedule 1, after item 72
insert
72A Dictionary, after definition of members
insert
National Parks and Wildlife Service means the National Parks and Wildlife Service of New South Wales.
NSW Rural Fire Service means the NSW Rural Fire Service established under Part 2 of the Rural Fires Act 1997 of New South Wales.
Notes
1. This Ordinance amends Ordinance No. 2, 2001.
2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 2004.