16Chief fire control officer

16 Chief fire control officer (1) The Minister may, by Gazette notice, appoint a public sector employee to be the chief fire control officer. (2) Subject to the direction and control of the executive director, the chief fire control officer is responsible for managing the operational activities of Bushfires NT and the volunteer bushfire brigades. (3) The chief fire control officer has the powers necessary to perform the chief fire control officer's functions. (4) The executive director: (a) has, and may exercise, all the powers of the chief fire control officer; and Part 2 Administration Division 3 Fire control officers Bushfires Management Act 2016 8 (b) may perform any of the functions of the chief fire control officer. (5) The chief fire control officer may delegate any of the chief fire control officer's powers and functions under this Act to a public sector employee. (6) Without limiting subsection (3), the chief fire control officer has all the powers of a fire control officer under this Act.