South Australian Consolidated Regulations

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES REGULATIONS 2005 - REG 73

73—Transitional provisions—2009 Amendment Act

        (1)         In this regulation—

"commencement day" means the day on which the 2009 Amendment Act comes into operation;

"principal Act" means the Fire and Emergency Services Act 2005 ;

2009 Amendment Act means the Fire and Emergency Services (Review) Amendment Act 2009 .

        (2)         To avoid doubt, a person holding an appointment as a fire prevention officer under the principal Act immediately before the commencement day will continue as a fire prevention officer on and after that day and will be taken to have qualifications and experience appropriate to the office of fire prevention officer as envisaged by section 105B of the principal Act.

        (3)         A regional bushfire prevention committee in existence immediately before the commencement day will continue to be constituted until the Governor divides the State into bushfire management areas under section 72 of the principal Act (as enacted by the 2009 Amendment Act), and will then lapse.

        (4)         While a regional bushfire prevention committee continues in existence under subregulation (3)—

            (a)         the Chief Officer of SACFS may continue to fill casual vacancies in the membership of the committee;

            (b)         Schedule 4 of the principal Act, as in existence immediately before the commencement day, will be taken to continue to apply to and in relation to the committee; and

            (c)         the committee may, in relation to its region, perform or exercise any function or power vested in a bushfire management committee under the principal Act as amended by the 2009 Amendment Act.