New Zealand Legislation: Acts

4 Rural fire districts

• (1) For the purpose of fire control, the National Rural Fire Authority may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, constitute any part or parts of New Zealand to be a rural fire district, with such name and from such date, whether before or after or at the date of the notice, as may be specified in the notice:

  provided that, where no such date is specified, each district shall be deemed to come into being on the day after the date on which the notice constituting it is gazetted.

  (2) Where any area described in a notice published under subsection (1)—

  • (a) is a defence area within the meaning of the Defence Act 1990; and

  • (b) is not included in a Fire District within the meaning of the Fire Service Act 1975; and

  • (c) has been included in the notice at the request of the Minister of Defence,—

  that area shall, on the date on which the notice is gazetted, or on such other date as may be stated in that notice, become a rural fire district of which the Minister of Defence is, unless otherwise stated in the notice, the Fire Authority.

  (3) Any notice published under subsection (1) at the request of the Minister of Defence may at any time, at the request of the Minister of Defence, be revoked, in whole or in part, or amended.

  (4) The National Rural Fire Authority may, if it thinks fit, from time to time in like manner alter or redefine the boundaries of any rural fire district by the inclusion therein or the exclusion therefrom of any area, and may in like manner abolish any rural fire district.

  Section 4: substituted, on 1 January 1991, by section 4 of the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 137).

  Section 4(2)(b): amended, on 2 September 1996, by section 3 of the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 123).