Duty of plantation licensee etc.
63A Duty of plantation licensee etc.
A plantation licensee must at the person’s own expense, make all reasonable provision for preventing, detecting, controlling and extinguishing bush, grass, or other rural fires on the licence area.Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
A plantation licensee or plantation manager must, on becoming aware of a fire burning on the licence area that the plantation licensee or plantation manager reasonably believes to have been unlawfully lit or is out of control, immediately do everything reasonably within its power to extinguish the fire.Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
On becoming aware of a fire, a plantation licensee or plantation manager must immediately notify a forest officer of the fire—
if it is burning on State forest outside the licence area if the plantation licensee or plantation manager reasonably believes it to have been unlawfully lit or to be out of control; or
if it is burning outside State forest and the plantation licensee or plantation manager reasonably believes it is likely to spread to the State forest; or
if it is burning on the licence area, if the plantation licensee or plantation manager reasonably believes it is likely to spread beyond the licence area to the State forest outside the licence area.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
In this section—plantation licensee includes plantation sublicensee.
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