New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 43

43 Interstate assistance at fires

(1) A person who is a member of an interstate fire brigade and is present at a fire within a rural fire district for the purpose of mitigating or suppressing that fire must--

(a) obey any orders given to the person by the officer in charge at the fire, and

(b) place any gear or equipment in the person's charge at the disposal of the officer in charge at the fire.

(2) While there is no officer in charge at the fire, the member of the interstate fire brigade who has the charge of the members of that brigade present at the fire is, for the purposes of this Act, to be considered the officer in charge at the fire.

(3) A member of an interstate fire brigade who is present at a fire within a rural fire district for the purpose of mitigating or suppressing that fire is taken to have and may exercise all the functions that, if the fire were in the area of a rural fire brigade, the officer in charge of that rural fire brigade would have and be capable of exercising and performing.

(4) In this section--

"interstate fire brigade" means a fire brigade (by whatever name called) established under a law of any place outside New South Wales.