3Definitions

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act—

Commissioner means the person employed in the Public Service as the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW.

community fire unit means a community fire unit established under section 74B.

Council means the New South Wales Fire Brigades Advisory Council constituted by this Act.

fire brigade means a permanent fire brigade or a retained fire brigade, but does not include a rural fire brigade.

fire district means an area constituted as a fire district under section 5.

flammable matter includes—

(a) any substance capable of ignition or combustion by the application of heat, by means of sparks or spontaneously, and

(b) any substance prescribed as flammable for the purposes of this definition.

hazardous material means anything that, when produced, stored, moved, used or otherwise dealt with without adequate safeguards to prevent it from escaping, may cause injury or death or damage to property.

hazardous material incident means an actual or impending land-based spillage or other escape of hazardous material that causes or threatens to cause injury or death or damage to property.

local government area has the same meaning as area has in the Local Government Act 1993.

officer in charge, in relation to a place at which a fire brigade is present, means the Commissioner or, if the Commissioner is absent—

(a) the person for the time being in charge of any members of a permanent fire brigade present at that place, or

(b) if no members of a permanent fire brigade are present, the person for the time being in charge of any members of a retained fire brigade present at that place.

owner, in relation to land or a building, means—

(a) any person for the time being in actual receipt of, or entitled to receive, the rents and profits of the land or building, or

(b) any person who, if the land or building were let to a tenant, would be entitled to receive the rents and profits of it,

whether as beneficial owner, trustee, executor, mortgagee in possession, or as agent or attorney for any other person, or otherwise.

permanent fire brigade means a permanent fire brigade established and maintained by the Commissioner, the services of whose members are wholly at the disposal of the Commissioner.