New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 34

34 Deputy fire control officers

(1) A deputy fire control officer is to act as fire control officer for the district--

(a) at the direction of the fire control officer, or

(b) in the event of the absence, illness or other inability to act of the fire control officer, or

(c) during a vacancy in the office of the fire control officer.

(2) A deputy fire control officer--

(a) when acting as a fire control officer under this section, has and may exercise all the functions of a fire control officer by or under this Act, and

(b) when acting under the direction of a fire control officer (other than a direction under subsection (1)) has and may exercise such of the functions conferred on a fire control officer by or under this Act as may be necessary or convenient to be exercised for the purpose of carrying out the direction.