AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

CARELESS USE OF FIRE ORDINANCE 1971

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 27 of 1971

	The objectives of the Careless Use of Fire Ordinance 1971 are –

•	to increase the maximum membership of the A.C.T. Bush Fire Council from 9 to 12;

•	to enable the Minister to appoint one or more Deputy Chief Fire Control Officers;

•	to permit the use of liquefied petroleum gas heating appliances in the open air, except during the period of acute fire danger, if an area around the appliance for a distance of 5 feet is cleared of inflammable material; and

•	to extend the existing provisions which prohibit the lighting of fires in the open air, by prohibiting also the use or maintenance of such fires, in order to overcome evidentiary problems.

          R.J.H.
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(Minister’s Initials)