New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Fire Authority in rural fire districts

• (1) Except in the case of a rural fire district constituted under section 4(2) of this Act, every rural fire district shall be administered for the purposes of this Act by a Fire Authority, being either the Minister of Conservation or a rural fire committee constituted as hereinafter provided, as may be prescribed by the National Rural Fire Authority by notice in the Gazette.

  (2) The National Rural Fire Authority may, by notice in the Gazette, change the Fire Authority of any rural fire district and, by the same or any subsequent notice in the Gazette, may make such consequential provision as may seem to it to be desirable with respect to the property, liabilities, and engagements of the Fire Authority in respect of the administration of the district.

  Compare: 1955 No 44 s 7

  Section 7 was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by inserting the words “of Conservation”.

  Section 7 was substituted, as from 1 January 1991, by section 5 Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 137). See section 37 of that Act for the transitional provisions.