Bushfires Management Act 2016

(1) Subject to the direction and control of the Chief Executive Officer, the executive director is responsible for the management of Bushfires NT.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the functions of the executive director are:

(a) to implement measures for the mitigation, management and suppression of bushfires; and

(b) to assist the Council and each regional committee generally in the exercise of its powers and the performance of its functions and duties; and

(c) to determine how Government funded firefighting assets are to be allocated among volunteer bushfire brigades.

(3) The executive director has the powers necessary to perform the executive director's functions.

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the executive director may, by written notice given to the captain of a volunteer bushfire brigade, direct the captain to transfer Government funded firefighting assets held by the brigade and specified in the notice to another brigade specified in the notice.

(5) The executive director may delegate any of the executive director's powers and functions under this Act to a public sector employee.

(a) has, and may exercise, all the powers of the executive director; and