New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 8

8 NSW Rural Fire Service

(1) There is established by this Act the NSW Rural Fire Service.

(2) The Service comprises the following members--

(a) the Commissioner and other staff of the Service,

(c) volunteer rural fire fighters.

(3) In this Act--

"volunteer rural fire fighters" means--

(a) officers and other members of rural fire brigades, and

(b) any person other than a member of a rural fire brigade who, without remuneration or reward, voluntarily and without obligation engages in fighting (or in activities associated with fighting) a fire with the consent of or under the authority and supervision of an officer of a rural fire brigade.