South Australian Current Acts

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES ACT 2005 - SECT 143

143—Fees

        (1)         An organisation within the emergency services sector may impose prescribed fees and charges in connection with the provision of any service of a prescribed kind undertaken in the performance of its functions.

        (2)         The regulations may, for example, prescribe a fee or charge in connection with any of the following:

            (a)         the attendance at any premises or place in response to a false or unwanted alarm;

            (b)         the monitoring of any alarm or situation;

            (c)         the provision of any advice or report;

            (d)         the provision, inspection, testing, servicing or repairing of any plant or equipment;

            (e)         the provision of assistance to clean-up any place after an accident or other incident involving the spillage or escape of any substance or material;

            (f)         the performance of any recovery operations;

            (g)         the conducting of any training course.

        (3)         A fee or charge may be fixed by reference to any factor prescribed by the regulations.

        (4)         The regulations may prescribe an additional fee, or a method for the calculation of an additional fee, for the late payment of prescribed fees and charges generally, or of any particular prescribed fees or charges.