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Fire Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1867

9. The Fire Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1867.

Analysis. Preamble.

1. Repealing Clause.

2. Buildings in case of fire may upon due order be pulled down. Provision in case of Insurance.

3. Application of Ordinance to all accepted Fire Brigades.

4. Title.

Whereas it is expedient to amend the “Fire Ordinance 1864”

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the said Province with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows:

1. Repealing Clause.

Section 12 of the said recited Ordinance shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. Buildings in case of fire may upon due order be pulled down. Provision in case of Insurance.

Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Chief Engineer or other Officer for the time being acting in the command of any Fire Brigade to remove pull

down or destroy any tenement building or buildings for the purpose of preventing the spreading of any fire and an order for such purpose shall be signed by the Chairman of any Municipal Council or by any such two Members of such

Municipal Council for the town or locality where such fire shall for the time being be raging or the Resident Magistrate of such town or by some other Justice of the Peace or by the Chief Officer of Police on duty in such town or locality and the said Chief Engineer or other Officer acting as aforesaid any tenement or building so removed pulled down or destroyed shall be deemed for the purpose of recovering any insurance that may have been effected thereon and for all other purposes whatsoever to have been destroyed by fire and no person acting under the authority of such order shall be liable to any penalty or damages whatsoever for aving assisted at the removal pulling down or destruction of any tenement or building Provided always that any such order shall be forthwith handed to any Officer of the Police then on duty.

3. Application of Ordinance to all accepted Fire Brigades.

This Ordinance and Sections 10 and 11 of the said recited Ordinance shall be and the same are hereby declared to apply to all Fire Brigades when the same shall have been accepted by the Superintendent of the said Province.

4. Title.

This Ordinance shall be read and taken as part of the said recited Ordinance and shall be entituled and cited as the “Fire Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1867.”

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on the 3rd

January 1867, and assented to by the Superintendent on the 9th January.