Declaration of fire ban days
31 Declaration of fire ban days
(1) The Commissioner may, by written notice, declare a day in respect of an emergency response area specified in the notice to be a fire ban day.
A declaration under subsection (1) may provide as follows:
specify fires that are not subject to the ban;
(b) prohibit or restrict the use of specified machines or apparatus in the open air on the fire ban day.
(3) With the view of ensuring general public knowledge of a declaration under subsection (1), the Commissioner must cause the declaration to be published in such a manner as the Commissioner thinks fit, and without limiting the generality of this subsection, the Commissioner may cause an announcement of the declaration to be:
transmitted by a radio or television station; or
published in a newspaper circulating in the Territory.
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