Jervis Bay Territory Rural Fires Ordinance 2014
95Powers of police officers to give directions
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95 Powers of police officers to give directions
(1) A member or special member of the AFP who has reasonable grounds to suspect that a person is committing an offence against this Ordinance may direct the person to produce a permit, notice or other document by or under the authority of which the person claims that a fire has been lit. (2) A member or special member of the AFP may direct a person who has lit a fire in contravention of a provision of this Ordinance: (a) to extinguish the fire; or (b) if the fire is in the open air, to extinguish the fire before leaving the site of the fire. (3) A person commits an offence if the person fails to comply with a direction given to the person under subsection (2)
Penalty: 5 penalty units.
(4) It is a defence to a prosecution under subsection (3) that the member or special member of the AFP did not explain to the person, when giving the direction, that failure to comply with the direction is an offence.