New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 54

54 Content of draft bush fire risk management plan

(1) A draft bush fire risk management plan for a rural fire district or other part of the State is to set out schemes for the reduction of bush fire hazards in the rural fire district or other part of the State.

(2) Without limiting the matters that may be contained in a draft bush fire risk management plan, it may restrict or prohibit the use of fire or other particular fire hazard reduction activities in all or specified circumstances or places to which the plan applies.

(3) The Bush Fire Management Committee must, when preparing a draft bush fire risk management plan for a rural fire district or other part of the State, consider the number and location of neighbourhood safer places in the rural fire district or other part of the State.

(4) The Commissioner may direct a Bush Fire Management Committee to amend a draft bush fire risk management plan prepared and submitted by it.

Note : A plan might, for example, prohibit the use of fire because of its effect on fauna or flora in, or the cultural heritage of, a particular place.