sec.62Control of fires for burning off or clearing vegetation

### sec.62 Control of fires for burning off or clearing vegetation A person must not light, maintain or use a fire in a State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area that is likely to burn off or clear any vegetation in the State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. A person must not allow another person to light, maintain or use a fire in a State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area that is likely to burn off or clear any vegetation in the State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. Any person who is convicted of an offence against this section may on conviction, in addition to the penalty imposed, be ordered by the court to pay to the chief executive, a plantation licensee or plantation sublicensee in respect of any damage or injury and the costs of controlling and extinguishing any fire occasioned or caused by the commission of such offence, such amount as is fixed by the court after taking the evidence on oath of a forest officer or plantation officer as to the nature and extent of such damage or injury and costs of controlling or extinguishing the fire and, in default of payment thereof, such amount may be recovered in the same way as a pecuniary penalty. The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in diminution of or substitution for the provisions of any other enactment of this Act. s 62 amd 1968 No. 33 s 26 ; 1973 No. 41 s 24 (b) ; 1974 No. 33 s 15 ; 1982 No. 73 s 49 ; 1990 No. 10 s 4 sch 2 ; 1991 No. 13 s 13 ; 1992 No. 15 s 13 sch ; 2000 No. 26 s 12 sch 1 ; 2001 No. 57 s 3 sch ; 2005 No. 53 s 159 sch ; 2010 No. 12 s 48 ; 2014 No. 17 s 184 sch 1 pt 4 ; 2014 No. 41 s 27 (sec.62-ssec.1) A person must not light, maintain or use a fire in a State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area that is likely to burn off or clear any vegetation in the State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. (sec.62-ssec.1A) A person must not allow another person to light, maintain or use a fire in a State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area that is likely to burn off or clear any vegetation in the State forest, timber reserve or forest entitlement area. Maximum penalty—165 penalty units. (sec.62-ssec.2) Any person who is convicted of an offence against this section may on conviction, in addition to the penalty imposed, be ordered by the court to pay to the chief executive, a plantation licensee or plantation sublicensee in respect of any damage or injury and the costs of controlling and extinguishing any fire occasioned or caused by the commission of such offence, such amount as is fixed by the court after taking the evidence on oath of a forest officer or plantation officer as to the nature and extent of such damage or injury and costs of controlling or extinguishing the fire and, in default of payment thereof, such amount may be recovered in the same way as a pecuniary penalty. (sec.62-ssec.3) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in diminution of or substitution for the provisions of any other enactment of this Act.