New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 74CA

74CA Misdirected complaints

(1) A written communication made to a public authority (other than the relevant local authority) that, if it were made to the Commissioner or the relevant local authority, would be a bush fire hazard complaint relating to land owned or occupied by, or vested in or under the control or management of, the public authority--

(a) must be referred by the public authority to the Commissioner within 14 days of receipt of the communication, and

(b) is taken to be a bush fire hazard complaint for the purposes of this Division even though it was not made to the Commissioner or the relevant local authority.

(2) Despite subsection (1)(b) and section 74C(4), written notice of the communication does not need to be given to the public authority.

(3) In this section,
"relevant local authority" means the local authority of the local government area in which the land to which the written communication relates is located.