New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9 Fire Authority's powers in areas of urban vegetation

• In respect of any sufficiently described area of vegetation situate within the jurisdiction of the New Zealand Fire Service Commission, the powers of a Fire Authority under this Act may be exercised, notwithstanding any provisions otherwise in any other enactment,—

  • (a) by any Fire Authority to the extent of any agreement or arrangement made between it and the Commission pursuant to section 14(2); or

  • (b) by any local authority to the extent of any agreement or arrangement made by that local authority with the National Rural Fire Authority and that Commission and published or notified in the Gazette:

  provided that the area shall not thereby cease to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.

  Section 9(b): amended, on 1 January 1991, by section 7 of the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 137).