121Notification of fire etc—obligations of owners or

121 Notification of fire etc—obligations of owners or occupiers of rural land (1) If a person who is the owner or occupier of rural land becomes aware of an outbreak of uncontrolled fire on the land (or on unleased Commonwealth or territory land adjacent to the land), the person must— (a) immediately take all reasonable steps to tell the commissioner, a member of the fire and rescue service or rural fire service, or a police officer, of the outbreak; and

immediately telephoning 000 emergency about the outbreak (b) if the outbreak is on the land owned or occupied by the person and it is not beyond the person’s capacity to extinguish the fire— take all reasonable steps to extinguish it. (2) A person commits an offence if the person fails to comply with subsection (1). (b) in any other case—50 penalty units (3) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.