15. Supply of apparatus and fire fighting services---(1) Any Fire
 Authority may arrange with the New Zealand Fire Service Commission, or
 with the Crown, or with any employer of an industrial fire brigade that
 the services of the whole or any part or parts of any specified brigade
 or brigades or apparatus shall be available in such circumstances and
 upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon for fire control,
 and subsection (2) of section 16 of this Act shall apply as though such
 services were under a contract, agreement, or arrangement made under
 that section.

   (2) Where the Chief Fire Officer of any Fire District constituted
 under the Fire Service Act 1975 controls a brigade that for the time
 being holds apparatus received for emergency purposes from the Crown on
 loan or by way of gift, the Chief Fire Officer shall on call from the
 Director-General [of Conservation] or [any officer or employee of the
 Department of Conservation] acting as, or as agent for, a Fire
 Authority, make available any apparatus, together with an appropriate
 number of brigadesmen, which may be required for fire control:

   Provided that the Chief Fire Officer shall not be required to make
 available members of the brigade who are, and apparatus which is,
 essential for urgent local requirements.

   (3) Payment for the use of apparatus and for the services of
 brigadesmen  shall be made on such basis as may be agreed upon, or, in
 default of agreement, as may be prescribed.
     Cf. 1955, No. 44, s. 15

       In subs. (2) the words ``of Conservation'' in the first set of
     square brackets were inserted by s. 65 (1) of the Conservation Act
     1987, and the words in the second set of square brackets were
     substituted for the former words by s. 6 of the Forest and Rural
     Fires Amendment Act 1987.