New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 April 2011
| Public Act | 1977 No 52 |
| Date of assent | 21 November 1977 |
| Commencement | see section 1(2) |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.
1 Short Title and commencement
3A Delegation of powers by Minister of Forestry [Repealed]
3B Delegation of powers by Secretary [Repealed]
Part 1
Fire control organisation
Rural fire districts and specially protected property
5 Preliminary steps before rural fire district constituted or boundaries changed
6 Specially protected property
7 Fire Authority in rural fire districts
7A New Zealand Forestry Corporation rural fire district [Repealed]
9 Fire Authority's powers in areas of urban vegetation
10 Fire Authority in territorial areas
11 Fire Authority in State areas
11B Exclusion of land from fire safety margin
13 Fire Officers and other employees
14 Joint, etc, exercise of statutory fire control powers
15 Supply of apparatus and firefighting services
16 Mutual arrangements for fire control measures
Fire prediction and fire control measures
18 Obligations of Rural Fire Authorities and National Rural Fire Authority in respect of fire control measures
Control of lighting of fires in open air
20 Prohibition of fires during extreme fire hazard
21 Prohibition of certain operations during periods of extreme fire hazard
22 Restricted or prohibited fire seasons
23 Permits required to light fires in open air
24 Special permits when lighting of fires in open air prohibited
Control of spread of fire to State areas, forest areas, and specially protected property
25 Spread of fires to State areas, forest areas, and specially protected property
Miscellaneous precautions against outbreaks of fire
26 Offence to leave burning or smouldering substance
27 Fire Authority may require firebreaks to be made or cleared
28 Appeal from notice to make firebreak or escape route or remove combustible material
29 Power of Fire Authority on default of owner
30 Regulations may require maintenance of firefighting equipment by rural fire committees
31 Restriction on operation of spark-hazardous engines
32 Restriction on entry into exotic forests, etc
33 Maintenance of apparatus by persons cutting timber
34 Duties of licensees, etc, of State areas
35 Duty of persons in vicinity to endeavour to extinguish fires
36 Powers of Principal Fire Officers or Rural Fire Officers at fires
37 Police to assist Fire Officers
38 Requisition by Fire Officer of assistance to extinguish fires
42 Charge for use of another fire brigade
43 Recovery from person responsible for fire
44 Estimate of proposed expenditure
45 Provisions for meeting ordinary requirements of the Fire Authority of a rural fire district
46 Levy for costs of firefighting in districts other than State areas
46A Levy for costs of firefighting in fire safety margins attached to State areas
47 Levy for costs of firefighting in State areas [Repealed]
48 Imposition of levies, and recovery of levies and other money
49 Appeals against levies and determinations
50 Expenditure by territorial authorities [Repealed]
51 Payment of fire control costs following regional fire emergency
52 Appeal against apportionment of firefighting costs in regional fire emergency
53 Right of recovery in certain cases
54 Fire Authority may borrow money
55 Damage in firefighting to be damage by fire within meaning of fire policy
56 Saving of Fire Authorities and Fire Officers, etc, from liability in certain cases
57 No action against Fire Authority for failure to provide against fire
58 Inspections for purposes of Act
60 Measures by local authorities and public bodies to remove certain fire hazards
60A Imposition of annual levy on Fire Authorities [Repealed]
60B Rate of levy [Repealed]
60C Recovery of amount of levy [Repealed]
60D Failure to supply return [Repealed]
60E Penalty for late payment [Repealed]
60F Amount of goods and services tax included [Repealed]
62 Time within which information may be laid
64 Panel of persons who may be appointed as Rural Fire Mediators
65 Appeals from decision of Rural Fire Mediator
68 Reserve powers of Minister [Repealed]
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the safeguarding of life and property by the prevention, detection, control, restriction, suppression and extinction of fire in forest and rural areas and other areas of vegetation
