74DInvestigation of complaint

74D Investigation of complaint

74D Investigation of complaint

(1) The Commissioner must investigate the bush fire hazard complaint as soon as practicable after it is received.

(2) The Commissioner may investigate the complaint as the Commissioner thinks fit.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the Commissioner (or a person authorised by the Commissioner) may, for the purpose of forming an opinion as to whether a bush fire hazard exists on the land to which the complaint relates, enter during the daytime any part of the land (other than a dwelling-house) that it is necessary to inspect in order to form that opinion.

(4) The Commissioner may decline to deal with a complaint, or dismiss a complaint, that the Commissioner considers to be vexatious, misconceived, frivolous or lacking in substance.

(5) The Commissioner is to notify the complainant if the Commissioner declines to deal with, or dismisses, the complaint.

s 74D: Ins 2002 No 67, Sch 3 [5]. Am 2009 No 74, Sch 1 [14] [15].