33. Maintenance of apparatus by persons cutting timber---[(1) The
 Principal Rural Fire Officer of any district may, from time to time, by
 notice in writing, require that any person who is felling trees for any
 commercial or industrial purpose or who is producing timber in a sawmill
 in that district shall provide and maintain in effective working order
 such apparatus and observe such other requirements as may be specified
 by the Principal Rural Fire Officer for the purpose of fire control
 among the standing trees or the debris of the tree felling operations or
 the refuse from the sawmilling operations.]

   (2) Any person who is dissatisfied with any requirements of the
 [Principal Rural Fire Officer] under this section may, within 14 days
 after notice thereof has been given, request the Minister [of Forestry]
 to appoint a Rural Fire Mediator to give in the public interest a final
 decision regarding the requirements of the notice.

   (3) Pending the decision of the Mediator the notice shall be deemed
 suspended.

   (4) Every person who fails or refuses to comply with such requirements
 of the [Principal Rural Fire Officer] or Mediator, as the case may be,
 commits an offence against this Act.
     Cf. 1955, No. 44, s. 29

       Subs. (1) was substituted for the original subs. (1) by s. 32 (1)
     of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
       In subss. (2) and (4) the words in square brackets were
     substituted for the words ``Director-General'' by s. 32 (1) of the
     State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
       In subs. (2) the words ``of Forestry'' were inserted by s. 2 (1)
     (a) of the Forest and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1987.