25Duty to recognise authority of officers

25 Duty to recognise authority of officers

25 Duty to recognise authority of officers

(1) Every member of the NSW Police Force and all other persons are to recognise—

(a) the authority of the Commissioner and any member of a fire brigade acting under the Commissioner’s orders, and

(b) the authority of the officer in charge at a place at which a fire brigade is present.

(2) It is the duty of every member of the NSW Police Force to support the authority of such a person and to assist him or her in enforcing compliance with any orders given under this Act or the regulations.

(3) This section applies only in respect of the protection of persons from injury or death, or of property from damage, when the persons are or the property is endangered by fire or a hazardous material incident.

s 25: Am 1993 No 110, Sch 1 (19); 1994 No 36, Sch 1 (4) (5); 2011 No 62, Sch 3.11.