South Australian Consolidated Acts

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES ACT 2005 - SECT 72

72—Establishment of bushfire management areas

        (1)         The Governor may, by proclamation made on the recommendation of the State Bushfire Coordination Committee, divide the State into "bushfire management areas .

        (2)         The State Bushfire Coordination Committee must, in formulating a recommendation for the purposes of subsection (1)—

            (a)         give attention to the nature and form of the natural environment; and

            (b)         take into account local government boundaries or areas and Natural Resources Management regions.

        (3)         The Governor may, by subsequent proclamation made on the recommendation of the State Bushfire Coordination Committee—

            (a)         vary the boundaries of any bushfire management area;

            (b)         abolish a bushfire management area (on the basis that a new division is to occur).