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Bushfires Management Act 2016
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Division 7 Powers of fire control officers and fire wardens
Bushfires Management Act 2016 19
(b) at any time, require a person whom the officer suspects on
reasonable grounds of having committed an offence against
this Act:
(i) to state their full name and place of residence; and
(ii) to produce any permit held by them; or
(c) at any time, require a person who has lit, or is maintaining or
using, a fire in contravention of this Act to extinguish the fire
immediately, or before leaving it, as the officer considers
appropriate; or
(d) at a reasonable time without warrant, enter any land to assess
whether it is necessary for firebreaks to be established on, or
bush or other flammable material to be removed from, the
land.
(2) In conducting an investigation mentioned in subsection (1)(a)(ii)
or (iii), the fire control officer may:
(a) carry out a search of the land; or
(b) carry out a search of any vehicle or vessel on the land; or
(c) seize anything found on the land, vehicle or vessel that the
officer believes on reasonable grounds is connected with the
cause of a bushfire or the commission of an offence against
this Act.
(3) Before carrying out an assessment mentioned in subsection (1)(d),
if there is a person on the land who is or appears to be the occupier
of the land, the fire control officer must show their identity card to
the person.
(4) A fire control officer may direct a fire warden to exercise a power
that the fire control officer may exercise under this section.
(5) If a fire warden is directed to do a thing by a fire control officer
under subsection (4), the fire warden has power to do that thing.