Regulations

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The Governor may make regulations —

defining fire hazards;

prescribing minimum standards of access to and egress from buildings;

prescribing fire equipment to be provided and maintained in various classes of buildings;

providing for fire hydrants;

providing for fire stations;

prescribing standards of training and methods of fire-fighting;

prescribing uniforms and badges of rank to be worn by officers;

for the storage of combustible substances in any premises;

prescribing the form of any notice, order, permit or other document or thing required by the Law to be served, made, issued or done;

securing with respect to buildings or premises that any standards laid down under this Law are observed;

securing the installation and maintenance in proper working order of systems, machinery and other things for the elimination or reduction of fire hazards, the control or management of fires and hazardous events;

empowering an officer at a fire or a place where there is immediate danger from a hazard to which this Law relates to take, or direct, such action as may be necessary to control or extinguish the fire or avert the danger, to perform any rescue and do such other things as are reasonably necessary in the performance of his duty;

authorising an officer exercising any power conferred by a regulation made under paragraph (1), by use of reasonable force if necessary, to prohibit any person, vehicle, vessel or object from approaching any fire or place, to remove or cause to be excluded for any reasonable time any person, vehicle, vessel or thing from any area affected or likely to be affected by the fire or danger concerned;

preventing any obstruction of, or hindrance to, any officer performing any duty imposed upon him by this Law;

promulgating a fire prevention code for the better ensuring of safety of life, health and property from fire and the other hazards referred to in, or prescribed under, this Law;

authorising the delegation by the Chief Fire Officer to any person of all or any of his functions or powers, either absolutely or conditionally;

prescribing the circumstances and conditions upon which fires may be permitted in any open space;

restricting the use of combustible materials in the construction of any building;

regulating the storage of any combustible or hazardous substance;

prescribing conditions of recruiting and employing probationary and volunteer officers; and

prescribing anything required to be prescribed by this Law.

A regulation made under subsection (1) may provide a penalty on conviction of a breach of it or of any other such regulation not exceeding the penalty provided for in section 15.

Fire Brigade Act

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