Jervis Bay Territory Rural Fires Ordinance 2014
60ARoadside fire protection
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60A Roadside fire protection
(1) This section applies to a public authority that has the care, control or management of a road, or of vegetation on the side of a road. (2) The public authority may, for the purposes of bush fire hazard reduction work, light a fire on the road, or on the verge of the road, if doing so is consistent with the bush fire management plan. (3) If the public authority lights a fire under subsection (2), the authority may, while the fire is burning, prohibit, direct or regulate the movement of persons, vehicles or animals along the road or along another road of which the authority has the care, control or management.