Fire Service (Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 1997
I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the State Fire Commission, make the following regulations under the Fire Service Act 1979 .
31 October 1997G. S. M. Green
Governor
By His Excellency's Command,
John Beswick
Minister for Police and Public Safety
These regulations may be cited as the Fire Service (Miscellaneous) Amendment Regulations 1997 .
These regulations take effect on the day after the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
In these regulations, the Fire Service (Miscellaneous) Regulations 1996 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.
4. Regulation 20 amended (Fires to which section 69 applies)
Regulation 20 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting "not exceeding one cubic metre in volume" after "heaps".
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 12 November 1997
These regulations are administered by the Tasmania Fire Service.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations provide that a fire that is lit, maintained or used for the purpose of burning domestic garden refuse, where the burning is done in heaps not ecxeeding one cubic metre in volume or in an incinerator, is prescribed as a class of fire for the purposes of section 69 of the Fire Service Act 1979 .