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Fire Services
[1986 Ed.
Fifth Schedule.
(3B) Notwithstanding section 6, the Director may authorize the Deputy Director or any Chief Fire Officer to exercise the powers and duties conferred on him by subsection (3A) but he shall not be empowered to authorize any other person to exercise any of those powers or duties. (Added, 56 of 1969, s. 3)
(4) Where a fire hazard abatement notice is served on any person under subsection (1) and-
(a) whether or not that person has been convicted of an offence under subsection (3) he fails to comply with any of the requirements of the notice within the time specified therein; or
(b) the fire hazard, whether or not abated since the service of the notice, recurs, or is in the opinion of the Director likely to recur,
the Director may make a complaint to a magistrate's court and the magistrate hearing the complaint may make a fire hazard order in Form 3 in the Fifth Schedule. (Replaced, 54 of 1986, s. 3)
(4A) Where any person upon whom a fire hazard abatement notice is served under subsection (1) causes, permits or suffers the fire hazard to recur at any time within a period of 12 months after the date of service of the notice, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $25,000 and to a fine of $2,500 for each day during which the offence continues. (Added, 54 of 1986, s. 3)
(5) A fire hazard order may be-
(a) an abatement order, that is to say, an order which requires a person to comply with all or any of the requirements of a fire hazard abatement notice in connexion with which the order is made, or otherwise to abate the fire hazard or to do what may be necessary to prevent the recurrence of the fire hazard within the period specified in the order; or
(b) a prohibition order, that is to say, an order which prohibits the recurrence of the fire hazard; or
(c) [Deleted, 54 of 1986, s. 3]
(d) a combination of such orders.
(6) [Deleted, 54 of 1986, s. 3]
(7) An abatement order or a prohibition order shall, if the person in respect of whom the order is made so requires or if the court making the order considers it desirable, specify the works to be executed by such person for the purpose of abating, or of preventing the recurrence of, the fire hazard to which the order relates.
(7A) Where a fire hazard abatement notice is served on any person under subsection (1) and it is proved to the satisfaction of a magistrate's court on the sworn information of the Director that-