Prevention of Bush Fires: historical requirements

Prevention of Bush Fires The public are notified to comply with the undermentioned requirements before the following classes of fire may be lit during the BUSH FIRE DANGER PERIOD From [blank] To [blank] BURNING OFF, FIRE BREAKS, CLEARING, ETC.: (a) A permit must be first obtained from the local Council or person authorised by the Council, or, in those areas where there is no Council, the local Police. (b) Notice must be given in writing to the adjoining landholders twenty-four (24) hours before the fire is lit. (c) At least one person must be in attendance at the fire during the whole of the time it is burning. (d) Conditions of permit must be observed. MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE REQUIREMENTS— First Offence: £100 ($200) or six months imprisonment or both. Second Offence: £200 ($400) or twelve months imprisonment or both. CAMP COOKING OR BILLY FIRES: A fire may only be lit in a properly constructed fireplace distant not less than fifteen feet from any log or stump and the surrounding ground cleared for five feet. MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS REQUIREMENT— £50 ($100) or six months imprisonment or both. DROVERS. May light cooking fires provided the ground is cleared for ten feet. MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS REQUIREMENT— £50 ($100) or six months imprisonment or both. GARDEN REFUSE AND RUBBISH FIRES: May be lit only in properly constructed incinerators or in a cleared space of fifteen feet. If in a cleared space they may be lit only between seven o’clock in the evening and seven o’clock in the morning. They must be put out not later than the latter hour. MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS REQUIREMENT— £50 ($100) or six months imprisonment or both. BURNING CIGARETTES OR OTHER INCANDESCENT MATERIAL: It is an offence to ignite or use or carry when ignited any cigarette, tobacco, cigar or match or other burning or incandescent material within fifty feet of any stack of grain, hay, corn or straw or any standing crops or stubble field or to throw down or drop any such lighted smoking material or any other burning or incandescent material on any land, or on any bridge, wharf, pontoon or similar structure. MAXIMUM PENALTY: First Offence: £100 ($200) or six months imprisonment or both. Second Offence: £200 ($400) or twelve months imprisonment or both. ISSUED BY THE BUSH FIRE COMMITTEE AUTHORISED BY THE HON. E. A. WILLIS, M.L.A., CHIEF SECRETARY St 591 V. C. N. BLIGHT, GOVERNMENT PRINTER