sec.142Equipment for rural fire brigade

sec.142 Equipment for rural fire brigade

The commissioner may provide any rural fire brigade with equipment for carrying out its responsibilities or may, for that purpose, subsidise the purchase of equipment by a rural fire brigade. All equipment provided by, or the purchase of which is subsidised by, the commissioner is and remains the property of the State and may at any time be repossessed by the commissioner. A justice, acting upon the complaint of the commissioner, may issue a warrant authorising any person named in it or belonging to a class of person specified in it to search for and seize any equipment that pursuant to subsection (2) is the property of the State. A person authorised to execute a warrant may, for that purpose— enter any premises in which the person believes the equipment may be located; break open anything the person believes may contain the equipment. In this section— equipment , without limiting the meaning of the term, includes plant and any liquid or gaseous substance. s 142 prev s 142 amd 1996 No. 42 ss 21 sch 2 , 3 sch 3 ; 2001 No. 76 s 11 sch 2 sub 2014 No. 17 s 100 om 2024 No. 18 s 11 pres s 142 (prev s 84) amd 1996 No. 42 s 21 sch 2 ; 2001 No. 76 ss 24 (1) , 11 sch 2 ; 2014 No. 17 s 184 sch 1 pt 4 reloc and renum 2024 No. 22 s 51 (2) (sec.142-ssec.1) The commissioner may provide any rural fire brigade with equipment for carrying out its responsibilities or may, for that purpose, subsidise the purchase of equipment by a rural fire brigade. (sec.142-ssec.2) All equipment provided by, or the purchase of which is subsidised by, the commissioner is and remains the property of the State and may at any time be repossessed by the commissioner. (sec.142-ssec.3) A justice, acting upon the complaint of the commissioner, may issue a warrant authorising any person named in it or belonging to a class of person specified in it to search for and seize any equipment that pursuant to subsection (2) is the property of the State. (sec.142-ssec.4) A person authorised to execute a warrant may, for that purpose— enter any premises in which the person believes the equipment may be located; break open anything the person believes may contain the equipment. (sec.142-ssec.5) In this section— equipment , without limiting the meaning of the term, includes plant and any liquid or gaseous substance.

• (a) enter any premises in which the person believes the equipment may be located;
• (b) break open anything the person believes may contain the equipment.