70Property fire management plans within fire protection zone

70 Property fire management plans within fire protection zone (1) The executive director may do any of the following: (a) conduct a risk assessment of land within a fire protection zone; (b) direct a fire control officer or other person to conduct a risk assessment of land within a fire protection zone; (c) by written notice given to the owner or occupier of land within a fire protection zone, require the owner or occupier to prepare and submit to the executive director, by a date specified in the notice, a property fire management plan for the land; (d) prepare a property fire management plan for land within a fire protection zone and give it to the owner or occupier of the land. (2) In determining whether to do any of the things permitted under subsection (1), the executive director may consider any factors the executive director considers relevant. (3) Without limiting subsection (2), the executive director may consider: (a) previous non-compliance by the owner or occupier of the land with their obligations under this Act; and (b) the likely scale and urgency of the risk of fire to human safety or the environment. (4) A property fire management plan prepared under this section must specify adequate arrangements for the mitigation, management and suppression of fire on the land. (5) If an owner or occupier of land is given notice under subsection (1)(c) and the submitted plan is not, in the opinion of the executive director, adequate, the executive director may return the plan to the owner or occupier to make the amendments required by the executive director. Part 4 Controls on fire activities in zones and areas Division 1 Controls in fire protection zones Bushfires Management Act 2016 27 (6) The executive director, a fire control officer or a person directed by the executive director may enter land within a fire protection zone to carry out a risk assessment as permitted by this section. (7) If a property fire management plan requires the doing of a specified act by the owner or occupier of the land within a specified period and the owner or occupier fails to do the act within that period, the executive director may authorise, in writing, a person to: (a) enter the land, with or without equipment and machinery; and (b) do the act required to be done. (8) The cost to the Territory of work carried out under subsection (7) is: (a) a debt due and payable to the Territory; and (b) a statutory charge on the land.