New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 41

41 Duty to recognise authority of officers

(1) Every member of the NSW Police Force and all other persons are to recognise--

(a) the authority of the Commissioner and any member of a rural fire brigade or group of rural fire brigades or fire control officer acting under the Commissioner's directions, and

(b) the authority of the officer in charge at a fire, incident or other emergency at which a rural fire brigade is present or of an officer of a rural fire brigade directly assisting the person primarily responsible for responding to a fire, incident or other emergency.

(2) It is the duty of every member of the NSW Police Force to support the authority of such a person and to assist him or her in enforcing compliance with any directions given under this Act or the regulations.

(3) This section applies only in respect of the protection of persons from injury or death, or of property from damage, when the persons are or the property is endangered by fire or there is imminent danger of such a fire.