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Rural Fires Act 1997
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# Part 2 NSW Rural Fire Service
Part 2 NSW Rural Fire Service
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This Part establishes the NSW Rural Fire Service, and provides for its composition, functions and management. The Service is to be managed and controlled by the Commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service. The Commissioner is responsible for issuing the Service Standards, which are the guidelines in respect of the standard operating procedures to be followed by members of the Service. The Commissioner determines the duties of certain members of the Service (staff of the Service, including fire control officers, deputy fire control officers and ancillary fire control staff). The fire control officers, deputy fire control officers and ancillary fire control staff are employed under the [Government Sector Employment Act 2013](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2013-040) and are responsible for a number of functions, including the supervision and direction of functions exercised by or under the Act by rural fire brigades and groups of rural fire brigades.
**pt 2, note:** Am 2000 No 104, Sch 1 \[4\]; 2015 No 58, Sch 3.77 \[1\].