2015-02-03 P&O Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 2 - Proposed Subordinate Local Laws

     Noosa Shire Council Subordinate Local Law No. 3 (Community and Environment Management) 2015                4




6     Persons exempted from introducing etc a declared local pest—
      Authorising local law, s 12(2)
             For section 12(2) of the authorising local law, a person mentioned in column 1 of
             schedule 2 is exempt from section 12(1) of the authorising local law in relation to
             introducing, propagating, breeding or providing harbour to a declared local pest
             mentioned in the corresponding part of column 2 of schedule 2.


Part 3                       Overgrown and unsightly allotments
             This part in the authorising local law does not contain any matters to be provided
             for by subordinate local law.


Part 4                       Fires and fire hazards

7     Prohibition on lighting or maintaining fires—Authorising local law, s 15(2)
       (1) This section applies to all fires including but not limited to the following fires1—
              (a)    a fire in which neither the height, width nor length of the material to be
                     burnt exceeds 2 metres;
              (b)    a fire lit for the purpose of burning the carcass of a beast;
              (c)    a fire lit at a sawmill or another place where wood milling occurs for the
                     purpose of burning sawdust or other residue resulting from the operation of
                     a sawmill;
              (d)    a fire lit out-doors, if enclosed in a fireplace so constructed as to prevent the
                     escape of fire or any burning material therefrom.
       (2) For section 15(2) of the authorising local law, lighting or maintaining a fire
           described in column 2 of schedule 3 is declared to be prohibited in the
           corresponding part of the local government’s area mentioned in column 1 of
           schedule 3.


8     Fire hazards—Authorising local law, s 16(3)(b)
             For section 16(3)(b) of the authorising local law, the following are declared to be
             fire hazards—
              (a)    live cinders or hot ash that is not enclosed in a fireplace so constructed as to
                     prevent the escape of cinders or ash;
              (b)    a substantial accumulation of grass clippings that is liable to spontaneous


1
 Pursuant to a notification by the Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner published in the gazette on 6 August
2004 under section 63 of the Fire and Emergency Service Act 1990, the listed fires can generally be lit without a
permit issued by a fire warden, provided adequate precautions are taken to prevent the spread of fire and the fire
confirms with any local law. Local laws can therefore regulate these types of fire, which is the purpose of this
subordinate local law.