30. Regulations may require maintenance of fire fighting equipment by
 rural fire committees---(1) In any Order in Council which constitutes or
 provides for the constitution, appointment, or election of a rural fire
 committee, or in any regulations subsequently made under section 67 of
 this Act, the Governor-General may require the committee to take such
 steps, whether by appointment of Fire Officers or other servants or by
 the provision and maintenance of apparatus or otherwise howsoever, as
 may be prescribed or referred to in the regulations for the purpose of
 fire control in the district.

   (2) Any such regulations as aforesaid may require the committee to
 submit to the [Secretary of Forestry] from time to time particulars of
 all or any of the steps taken or proposed to be taken for the purpose
 aforesaid.
     Cf. 1955, No. 44, s. 27
       In subs. (2) the words ``Secretary of Forestry'' were substituted
     for the words ``Director-General'' by s. 7 of the Forest and Rural
     Fires Amendment Act 1987.