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l'I \ AI.TY FOR SETTING FIRE TO THE HUSH DURING PROHIBITED TIMES. 



7. Every person who shall wilfully or negligently set fire to the bush within any 

 district or part of the colony during the prohibited time for that district or part, shall be 

 liable, on conviction thereof before any two or more justices of the peace, to a penalty 

 not exceeding $O. Provided that any lawful occupier of land may set fire to the 

 bush on the land in his occupation, if he shall have previously given to all occupiers of 

 the lands next adjacent to his said land, not less than seven days before he shall set 

 fire to the bush as aforesaid, a notice, in writing that he intends to set fire to the 

 bush on the land in his occupation on some day or days between the seventh day 

 and the fourteenth day after giving the said notice as aforesaid, and if he shall also 

 take all such precautions as shall prevent the fire from extending to any of the lands 

 adjacent, or from damaging the crops, grass, trees, houses, or buildings on any of the 

 lands adjacent. 



SERVICE OF NOTICE. 



8. The said notice may be in the form in the schedule to this Act, or in any 

 other form which shall clearly convey the information required by this Act, to be 

 given to the adjoining occupiers. Provided that notice shall be deemed to have been 

 duly given under this Act, if it shall have been either given or shown to the occupier 

 of the adjacent land, or if it shall have been left at his usual place of abode ; and 

 provided, further, that no notice as aforesaid shall be necessary in the case of lands 

 which are unoccupied. 



PENALTY FOR SETTING FIRE TO BUSH WITHOUT NOTICE TO ADJACENT OCCUPIERS. 



9. If any occupier of land shall wilfully set fire to the bush on the lands in his 

 occupation during any prohibited times, without having given notice to all the 

 occupiers of adjacent land as aforesaid, he shall be liable, on conviction thereof before 

 any two or more justices of the peace, to a penalty not exceeding .50, although such 

 fire shall not have extended to any of the adjacent lands and shall not have done any 

 damage as aforesaid. 



SCHEDULE. 



Take notice that I intend to set fire to the bush on my land situate at 

 on some day or days between the day of and the 



day of 189 . 



Signed 

 To Mr. 



of Date. 



Following are the dates, supplied by the resident magistrates of the respective 

 districts, between which it is permissible to burn off without giving notice : 



York 1 



Toodyay 



MTrraT ' ' From March 2nd to Se P tember 3Oth 

 Vasse 



Albany j 



Geraldton From February i6th to October 3ist 



KaSnning } From A P ril Ist to Au S ust 30th ' 



Between -19 degrees 30 minutes N. latitude and Tropic of Capricorn, firing the 

 bush is prohibited the whole year. 



