Chapter IPreliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the 1[Karnataka]1 Fire Force Act, 1964.

2. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order, 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973.

(2) It extends to the whole of the 1[State of Karnataka]1.

1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order, 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973.

(3) It shall come into force in any area on such 1[date]1 as the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different areas.

1. The Act has come into force on different dates in different areas by different notifications. Gist of those available notifications are at the end of the Act.

2. Definition.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “Director” means the Director of the Fire Force appointed under section 4;

(b) “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;

(c) “fire-station” means any post or place declared, generally or specially, by the State Government to be a fire-station;

(d) “Force” means the 1[Karnataka Fire Force]1 maintained under this Act;

(e) “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;

(f) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act.