8Matters excluded from operation of Code

8 Matters excluded from operation of Code

8 Matters excluded from operation of Code

This Code does not prevent the following—

(a) the taking of any measures authorised to be taken under the Rural Fires Act 1997, or the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989, in relation to an emergency within the meaning of the latter Act,

(b) the taking of any measures authorised to be taken under section 63 of the Rural Fires Act 1997 in relation to preventing the occurrence of bushfires, or minimising the danger of their spreading,

(c) any clearing carried out in accordance with a bush fire risk management plan under the Rural Fires Act 1997.

Note—

Accordingly, the taking of such measures, or the carrying out of such clearing, cannot amount to a contravention of the Code.