(1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(3) It shall come into force in such local areas and on such dates as the State Government hay, by notification from time to time in- the Official Gazette, direct; and the State Government may by like notification withdraw this Act from any such local area.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,—
(a) "Calcutta" means Calcutta as defined in clause (11) of section 3 of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923;
(b) "the Collector" means, in relation to Calcutta, the Collector of Stamp Revenue and in relation to any other local area, the Collector of the district within which the local area is comprised;
(c) "the Commissioner" in relation to the Collector means the Divisional Commissioner to whom the Collector is subordinate;
(d) "cotton" means loose raw cotton;
(e) "Director" means the Director of Fire Services appointed by the State Government;
CO "the fire brigade" means the fire brigade maintained by the State Government under section 3;
(g) "fire-fighting appliances" mean fire-engines, fireescapes, accoutrements, equipments, tools, implements and things whatsoever used for firefighting and include motor cars, motor cycles, trailers and other means of transport;
(h) "jute" means raw jute, either loose or in drums, and loose jute cuttings and rejections;
(i) "Magistrate" means a Presidency Magistrate or Magistrate of the First Class;
Short title, extent and commencement.
Definitions.
2 The West Bengal Fire Services Act, 1950.
[West Ben. Act (Chapter 11.—Fire Brigade.—Sections 3, 4.)
(j) "person" includes an undivided Hindu family, and • a firm or company or association of individuals whether incorporated or not;
(k) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act;
,s:731/) "warehouse" means any building or place used whether temporarily or permanently for the storing or pressing. or keeping of jute, gunny bags, cotton, hemp, resin, shellac, varnish, bitumen, ,i-caysvN,N. ',pitch, tar, tallow, celluloid, wood (excluding furniture kept in the building or place for 34)11'llr''"'• ordinary use), charcoal, coal, straw, hay, '1°J Ulugrass, golpata, hogla, derma, raw rattan canes, cocoanut fibre, waste paper, packinc, boxes, inflammable chemicals or any other article which in the opinion of the State Government is inflammable and is specified by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette for the purpose of this clause.
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CHAPTER II.
Fire brigade to be maintained.
Fower,AG0 State Governmeat to make orders with respect to the fire brigade.
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, ba. The State Government shall maintain a fire brigade or services in the local areas in which this Act is in force.
asoixrf)?, for the speedy attendance of members of the fire brigade . with necessary fire-fighting appliances on the occasion of any alarm of fire;
for sending the members of the fire brigade with necessary fire-fighting appliances, beyond the limits sroc~r of any local area in which this Act is in. force, in --frul„ 1° order to extinguish fire in the neighbourhood of <"-"?:" 'such. limits on such terms and conditions as it deems proper;
Aglirfi3r the employment of the members -of the fire brigade with necessary fire-fighting appliances, in work 9;t11-1! .other than extinguishing fire, on such terms and conditions as it deems proper;
t,i" 4. The State Government may from time to time make such general or special orders as it thinks fit—
(11) A3se ftoft, furnishing the fire brigade with such fire-fighting appliances as it deems proper;
;building or providing stations, or hiring places, for ds,hae „ accommodating the members of the fire brigade and lieeping its fire-fighting appliances;
i,,)g.• giving gratuities to persons who have given notice if,n i i of fires and to those who have rendered effective service to the fire brigade on the occasion of fires;
for the training, discipline and good conduct of the members of the fire brigade;
The West Bengal Fire" Services Act, 1950. 3 XVIII of 1950.]
(Chapter 11.—Fire Brigade.—Sections 5-7.)
for enforcing discipline and imposing punishment on any member of the fire brigade who may infringe orders;
for regulating and controlling the powers, duties and functions of the Director; and generally, for the maintenance of the fire brigade in a due state of efficiency.