New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 58

58 Arrangements for inter-State co-operation in rescue

(1) The State Rescue Board may make arrangements with any agency which manages or controls inter-State rescue units--

(a) for those rescue units to carry out rescue operations in New South Wales, or

(b) for accredited rescue units under this Division to carry out rescue operations outside New South Wales.

(2) An inter-State rescue unit which carries out a rescue operation in New South Wales in accordance with any such arrangement is not required to be accredited under Division 4, but is to be regarded as an accredited rescue unit for the purposes of this Division.

(3) In this section--

"inter-State rescue unit" means a rescue unit established and operating in another State or in a Territory of the Commonwealth.