Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts Subject to this Act,
the functions of the Authority under this Act are —
(a) to
take, superintend and enforce all necessary steps for preventing and
extinguishing fires and protecting and saving life and property from fire;
(b) to
take all practicable measures —
(i)
for protecting and saving life and property endangered by
hazardous material incidents;
(ii)
for confining and ending such an incident; and
(iii)
for rendering the site of such an incident safe;
(c) to
take and superintend all necessary steps in rescue operations;
(ca) to
promote the safety of life and property from fire, hazardous material
incidents, accidents, explosions or other incidents requiring rescue
operations;
(d) to
have the general control of all fire brigade premises and fire brigades; and
(e) to
perform such other duties as are entrusted to it by the Minister.
[Section 25 inserted by No. 52 of 1994
s. 15; amended by No. 42 of 1998 s. 23; No. 38 of 2002
s. 47.]