Control of Lighting of Fires in Open Air

   20. Prohibition of fires during extreme fire hazard---(1) On any
 specified day or days in respect of which the Minister [of Forestry] . .
 . has caused to be broadcast a warning of the occurrence or likelihood
 of the occurrence of weather or other conditions that may present an
 extreme fire hazard whereby life and property may be endangered by the
 outbreak or spreading of fires in any specified area, whether in a
 district or not, no person shall in that area light any fire in the open
 air or cause or permit any such fire to be lighted notwithstanding any
 other enactment.

   (2) On any specified day or days in respect of which a Fire Officer
 has, by notice, given a warning to any person of the occurrence or
 likelihood of the occurrence of weather or other conditions that may
 present an extreme fire hazard whereby life and property may be
 endangered by the outbreak or spreading of fires in any specified area,
 whether in a district or not, that person shall not in that area light
 any fire in the open air or cause or permit any such fire to be lighted
 notwithstanding any other enactment.

   (3) Every person commits an offence against this Act who, during the
 currency of any such warning, and without the authority of a special
 permit issued pursuant to section 24 of this Act, lights any fire in the
 open air, or causes or permits any such fire to be lighted.
     Cf. 1955, No. 44, s. 18

       In subs. (1) the words ``of Forestry'' were inserted by s. 2 (1)
     (a) of the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1987, and the words
     ``or Director-General'' were omitted by s. 32 (1) of the State-Owned
     Enterprises Act 1986.