New Zealand Legislation: Acts

24 Special permits when lighting of fires in open air prohibited

• (1) Notwithstanding sections 20, 21, and 23 of this Act, a Fire Officer may by special permit authorise the lighting of a fire in the open air—

  • (a)  Where a warning is in force under section 20(1) of this Act, or with the approval of the Principal Fire Officer during a prohibited fire season or where a warning is in force under section 20(2) of this Act or where a prohibition is in force under section 21(1)(a) of this Act, in order in each case to prevent, reduce, or overcome any hazard to life or health or in other serious emergency:

  • (b) During a prohibited fire season, where weather or other conditions have so temporarily reduced the fire hazard as to make it apparently safe to light the fire.

  (2) Every such special permit shall be issued subject to provision for supervision on behalf of the Fire Authority and to any other appropriate special conditions for fire control in the public interest.

  Subsection (1)(a) was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 32(1) State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 (1986 No 124) by omitting the words “With the approval of the Conservator of Forests”.