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Country Fire Authority Act 1958
99AValor medals
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99A Valor medals
(1) After due inquiry and after receipt of statutory declarations by not less than two witnesses of the action of any officer of the Authority or officer or member of any brigade in saving (or attempting to save) human life at grave risk to his own the Authority may award to such officer or member a medal which shall be known as the "Valor" medal.
(2) A Valor medal—
(a) shall be gold in colour and shall have depicted on the obverse a fireman rescuing a child and on the reverse the seal of the Authority; and
(b) shall be worn on all ceremonial occasions suspended by a red and blue ribbon fastened to the right breast of the jacket.
S. 99B inserted by No. 17/2003 s. 12.