Fire and Emergency Services Act 1998

For the purposes of the functions performed under the emergency services Acts, the Department may use, and operate under, a name (an operational name) —

set out in subsection (2); or

approved or amended under subsection (3).

The following names are operational names —

Bush Fire Service of Western Australia; and

FES Fire and Emergency Services; and

FES Fire Services; and

Western Australia Fire and Rescue Service; and

State Emergency Service; and

Volunteer Marine Rescue Services.

The Minister may by order published in the Gazette —

approve other operational names; or

amend, or cancel the use of, an operational name.

If a group of persons (a brigade) is both a bush fire brigade under the Bush Fires Act 1954 and a volunteer brigade under the Fire Brigades Act 1942, the brigade may, with the approval of the FES Commissioner, operate under the name FES Fire Services Brigade or any other name approved by the FES Commissioner.