FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969

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FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 4

Fire-hydrants.

4.(1) Any member of a fire brigade of [the fire authority] being on duty, and
any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary may enter and if necessary break
into any premises or place in which a fire has or is reasonably supposed to
have broken out, or any premises or place which it is necessary to enter for
the purpose of extinguishing a fire, [or of protecting any premises or place
from acts done for fire-fighting purposes or from damage whether by fire or
otherwise] without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, and may do
all such acts and things as he may think necessary for extinguishing fire or
for protecting from fire any such premises or place or rescuing any person or
property therein.

(2) Any person who wilfully obstructs or interferes with any member of a
fire brigade, engaged in operations for the extinction of a fire or the
protection or rescue of any person or property from fire, shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(3) At any fire the senior fire officer present... or, if any arrangement made
under this Act provides that any other person shall have charge of the
operations for the extinction of the fire, that other person, shall have the
sole charge and control of all operations for the extinction of the fire
including the fixing of the positions of fire engines and apparatus, the
attaching of hose to any water pipes or the use of any water supply, and the
selection of the parts of the building on fire or of adjoining buildings
against which the water is to be directed or which it may be necessary to
demolish in order to prevent the fire from spreading, and may require the
water to be shut off from the mains and pipes in any area in order to give a
greater supply and pressure of water for extinguishing the fire and,
notwithstanding anything in any enactment, no local authority, undertakers or
person shall be liable to any penalty or claim by reason of the interruption
of the supply of water occasioned only by compliance with such a requirement.

[(4) The senior officer of police present at any fire or, in the absence of
any officer of police, the senior fire brigade officer present may close to
traffic any street or may stop or regulate the traffic in any street whenever
in the opinion of that officer it is necessary or desirable to do so for
fire-fighting purposes or for the safety or protection of life or property.][

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FIRE SERVICES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 4