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Rural Fires Act 1997

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This Part contains provisions that are helpful in understanding the Act as a whole, as well as some machinery provisions. It also provides for the constitution of all those parts of the State that are not within fire districts (within the meaning of the Fire and Rescue NSW Act 1989) as rural fire districts.

pt 1, note: Am 2018 No 59, Sch 5.1.

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