Fire Damage Relief Act 1967 (Tas)

Fire Damage Relief Act 1967

An Act to make provision with respect to the relief of persons who suffered loss or personal injury through fires occurring during the month of February 1967 and of the dependants of persons whose deaths were caused by those fires, and for incidental and other purposes [Royal Assent 15 March 1967]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fire Damage Relief Act 1967 .

2. Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – corporation of a municipality means a council; distressed person means a person – (a) whose lands, buildings, structures, or goods were destroyed or damaged by the fires; (b) who has suffered personal injury by accident arising out of or caused by the fires; (c) who is a dependant of a deceased person whose death was caused, or contributed to, or hastened, by the fires or resulted from such an injury; or (d) who is a dependant of a deceased person whose death occurred in the course of any operations in which he was engaged during the period of emergency for or in connection with the relief or rehabilitation of persons who suffered loss, damage, or injury by reason of the fires; goods includes all chattels personal other than money or things in action; fires means the fires that occurred in the Southern Division of the State during the period of emergency; legal practitioner means an Australian legal practitioner; municipal district means a municipal area; period of emergency means the period that commenced on the seventh day of February 1967 and ended on the third day of March 1967; public authority means – (a) a person or body constituted, established, or appointed under an enactment or in the exercise of the prerogative rights of the Crown to administer or control any department, business, undertaking, or public institution on behalf of the State; (b) a person to whom the administration of an enactment is committed by law; (c) the corporation of a municipality; and (d) a corporation that is an authority within the meaning of the Statutory Authorities Act 1962 ; works means roads, bridges, culverts, waterworks, works for or connected with the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity, sewerage and drainage works, and such other works and undertakings as the Governor may, by proclamation, declare to be works for the purposes of this Act.