📘 Bush Fires Amendment Act 2016
027 of 2016Assented 21 September 2016
The Bush Fires Amendment Act 2016 amends the Bush Fires Act 1954 to allow the FES Commissioner to create bush fire risk treatment standards. These standards specify measures for preventing and mitigating the effects of bush fires, and compliance is voluntary unless it conflicts with other laws.
Impact
Landowners and occupiers are affected as the Act introduces bush fire risk treatment standards that they may choose to comply with. The FES Commissioner's powers are expanded. Local governments are indirectly affected as the standards may interact with local laws.
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