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Rural Fires Act 1997
62HProtection from personal liability for owners of neighbourhood safer places
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62H Protection from personal liability for owners of neighbourhood safer places
62H Protection from personal liability for owners of neighbourhood safer places
(1) The owner or occupier of a neighbourhood safer place is not liable for the death of, or injury to, any person arising from the use of the neighbourhood safer place as a shelter from a bush fire.
(2) Any liability for the death of, or injury to, a person arising from the use of a neighbourhood safer place as a shelter from a bush fire that would, but for subsection (1), attach to the owner or occupier of land attaches instead to the Crown.
pt 3A (ss 62B–62H): Ins 2010 No 130, Sch 1 [5].