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Bushfires Management Act 2016
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17 Senior fire control officers
(1) The Minister may, by Gazette notice, appoint a person to be a
senior fire control officer.
(2) The function of a senior fire control officer is to assist the chief fire
control officer in the exercise and performance of the powers and
functions of chief fire control officer.
(3) A senior fire control officer has the powers necessary to perform the
function mentioned in subsection (2).
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), a senior fire control officer has all
the powers of a fire control officer under this Act.