PART I
                        FIRE CONTROL ORGANISATION


          Rural Fire Districts and Specially Protected Property

   4. Rural fire districts---(1) For the purpose of fire control the
 Governor-General may from time to time by Order in Council constitute
 any part or parts of New Zealand to be a rural fire district, with such
 name and from such date, whether before or after or at the date of the
 Order, as may be specified in the Order:

   Provided that, where no such date is specified, each district shall be
 deemed to come into being on the date of the Order constituting it.

   (2) Every area for the time being and from time to time---
   (a) Being a defence area within the meaning of the Defence Act 1971;
         and
   (b) Not included in a Fire District within the meaning of the Fire
         Service Act 1975; and
   (c) Sufficiently described by any notice published in the Gazette by
         the Minister of [Forestry] at the request of the Minister of
         Defence (which notice may, in like manner, be wholly or partly
         revoked or amended) pursuant to this Act---

 shall, from the date such notice is so published, or from such other
 date as may be stated in that notice, be a rural fire district of which
 the Minister of Defence shall, unless otherwise stated in the notice, be
 the Fire Authority.

   (3) The Governor-General may, if he thinks fit, from time to time in
 like manner alter or redefine the boundaries of any rural fire district
 by the inclusion therein or the exclusion therefrom of any area, and may
 in like manner abolish any rural fire district.
     Cf. 1955, No. 44, s. 4

       In subs. (2) (c) the word ``Forestry'' was substituted for the
     word ``Forests'' by s. 2 (1) (c) of the Forest and Rural Fires
     Amendment Act 1987.