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Bushfires Management Act 2016
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61 Purpose of declaring fire management area
The purpose of declaring a fire management area is, for a limited
period:
(a) to establish an area for which an area fire management plan
must be prepared; and
(b) to establish an area within which the executive director may
require the owners or occupiers of land to prepare a property
fire management plan; and
(c) to apply the controls mentioned in Part 4, Division 4 to land
within the area.
Division 4 Fire danger areas