Section 62 — FIRE SERVICES ACT 1988

(a)

regulating the manufacture, sale, installation, testing, servicing and recharging of fire-fighting equipment or fire safety installation;

(b)

prescribing the types, locations and testing of fire-fighting equipment or fire safety installation used in any premises;

(c)

regulating the establishment of fire-brigades in private organizations, educational institutions and voluntary organizations;

(ca) regulating the establishment, duties and powers of voluntary fire-brigades;

(d)

regulating the establishment, duties and powers of fire safety organization in designated premises;

(e)

prescribing the uniforms, rank markings, identification cards and necessaries to be supplied to Fire Officers,

Auxiliary Fire Officers and Voluntary Fire Officers;

(f)

providing for all matters relating to Auxiliary Fire Officers and Voluntary Fire Officers, including their duties, powers, allowances and compensation;

(g)

prescribing the code of conduct of Fire Officers;

(h)

prohibiting, restricting or controlling the burning by any person of forest, shrub or other vegetation in any area;

(i)

regulating all matters relating to fire safety and fire precautions;

(j)

prohibiting, restricting or controlling the burning of flammable materials;

0 WJW23/0425 Act 341 BI.indd 45 25/07/2023 9:14 AM

Act 341

(k)

regulating the transportation, use, handling or storage of flammable materials;

(l)

prescribing the fees payable under the provisions of this

Act;

(m)

prescribing matters that may be or are required to be prescribed;

(n)

prescribing the offences under this Act which may be compounded, the procedure to be followed and the forms to be used in compounding;

(o)

regulating the administration of the Fire Services Department

Welfare Fund.

(2)

The Minister may, in regulations made under subsection (1), prescribe penalties of a fine not exceeding ten thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or both for the contravention of any provision of such regulations and, in the case of a continuing offence, a sum not exceeding one hundred ringgit for each day during which such offence is continued after conviction.

Repeal