Kerala Fire Force Act, 1962

No: 20 Dated: Jun, 21 1962

THE KERALA FIRE FORCE ACT, 1962

ACT 20 of 1962

An Act to provide for the maintenance of Fire Force for the Stale of Kerala

    whereas it is expedient to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Fire Force in the State of Kerala;

Be it enacted in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Kerala Fire Force Act, 1962.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Kerala.

(3) It shall come into force in any area on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different areas and for different provisions of this Act; and any reference in any such provision to the area or areas in which this Act is in force shall be construed as a reference to the area or areas in which that provision is in force.

2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a) "Collector" means the Chief Officer in charge of the revenue administration of the district and includes an acting or officiating Collector, and also any officer appointed by the Government to exercise the functions of the Collector;

(b) "Director" means the Officer appointed by the Government as the Director of the Fire Force for the State of Kerala;

(c) "fire-fighting property" includes-

(i) lands and buildings used as fire stations,

(ii) fire engines, equipments, tools, implements and things whatsoever used for fire-fighting,

(iii) motor vehicles and other means of transport used in connection with fire fighting, and

(iv) uniforms and badges of rank;

(d) "fire-station" means any post or place declared generally or specially, by the Government to be a fire-station;

(e) "Force" means the Kerala Fire Force maintained under this Act;

(f) "officer-in-charge of a fire-station" includes when the officer-in-charge of the fire-station is absent from the station or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the fire officer present at the station who is next in rank to such officer;

(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.