New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 7

7 Responsible local authorities in rural fire districts

(1) A function conferred or imposed by or under this Act on a local authority for and in respect of a rural fire district is to be exercised--

(a) by the local authority for the area for which the district is constituted under section 6, or

(b) if, under subsection (2), two or more local authorities agree to combine responsibility for and in respect of their rural fire districts--by the local authorities jointly or, if a local authority is nominated in the agreement, by the local authority or local authorities nominated in the agreement, or

(c) if, under subsection (3), two local authorities agree that one of the local authorities is to have responsibility for and in respect of the whole or part of the rural fire district of the other local authority--by the local authority nominated in the agreement as the local authority to be responsible for the whole or part of that rural fire district.

(2) Two or more local authorities may agree in writing to combine responsibility for and in respect of their rural fire districts. Responsibility for those rural fire districts is to be exercised jointly by the local authorities or, if the authorities nominate one of them in the agreement as the responsible authority, by that authority.

(3) A local authority may agree in writing with another local authority that the other local authority have responsibility for or in respect of the whole or part of the rural fire district for the area of the local authority.