PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Fire Service (Amendment) Act 1993

No. 2 of 1993
Certified on: 21 April 1993

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 1).
2. Repeal and replacement of Section 4.
	"4. CHIEF FIRE OFFICER."
3. Transitional arrangement.

AN ACT
entitled
Fire Service (Amendment) Act 1993,
Being an Act to amend the Fire Service Act (Chapter 64), 
MADE by the National Parliament.
1	INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1).
Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the definition of "building" the following:-
	"'Chief Fire Officer' means the Chief Fire Officer appointed under Section 4;".
2	REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 4.
Section 4 of the Principal Act is repealed and is replaced with the following:-
	"4. CHIEF FIRE OFFICER.
	The Head of State, acting on advice, shall, by notice in the National Gazette, appoint a suitably qualified person to be the Chief Fire Officer for the purposes of this Act.".
3	TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENT.
The Department Head who, immediately prior to the coming into operation of this Act, held the office of Chief Fire Officer, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, continue to hold that office on and after the coming into operation of this Act until an appointment to the office is made in accordance with the provision as amended by this Act.

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Fire Service (Amendment) Act 1993 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
I hereby certify that the Fire Service (Amendment) Act 1993 was made by the National Parliament on 2 March 1993.
Speaker of the National Parliament.