Western Australian Consolidated Acts

BUSH FIRES ACT 1954 - SECT 38A

38A .         Authority may appoint Chief Bush Fire Control Officer

        (1)         At the request of a local government the Authority may appoint a member of staff (as defined in the FESA Act) to be the Chief Bush Fire Control Officer for the district of that local government.

        (2)         Where a Chief Bush Fire Control Officer has been appointed under subsection (1) for a district the local government is not to appoint a Chief Bush Fire Control Officer under section 38(1).

        (3)         The provisions of this Act, other than section 38(3) to (5C) apply to and in relation to the Chief Bush Fire Control Officer appointed under this section as if he or she were a Chief Bush Fire Control Officer appointed under section 38 by the local government.

        (4)         Section 38(3) to (5C) apply to and in relation to the Chief Bush Fire Control Officer appointed under this section as if —

            (a)         he or she were a Chief Bush Fire Control Officer appointed under section 38 by the local government; and

            (b)         the references in those subsections to the local government were references to the Authority.

        [Section 38A inserted by No. 38 of 2002 s. 30; amended by No. 19 of 2010 s. 52(4).]