405Causing bushfires

405 Causing bushfires (a) intentionally or recklessly causes a fire; and (b) is reckless about the spread of the fire to vegetation on property belonging to someone else. Maximum penalty: 1 500 penalty units, imprisonment for 15 years or causes a fire—a person causes a fire if the person does any of the (a) lights a fire; (b) maintains a fire; (c) fails to contain or extinguish a fire that was lit by the person if it is not beyond the person’s capacity to contain or extinguish it. spread, of a fire, means spread of the fire beyond the capacity of the person who caused the fire to contain or extinguish it.