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Rural Fires Act 1997
72Certain damage to property caused by bush fire hazard reduction work covered by fire insurance
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#### 72 Certain damage to property caused by bush fire hazard reduction work covered by fire insurance
72 Certain damage to property caused by bush fire hazard reduction work covered by fire insurance
> > (1) Any damage to property caused by a person in the exercise in good faith of a power conferred by or under this Division is to be taken to be damage by fire within the meaning of any policy of insurance against fire covering the damaged property.
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> > (2) This section does not apply in relation to an entry on land that is authorised by section 70 (which relates to entry on land after failure to comply with a bush fire hazard reduction notice).