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On 8 December 2021 at 9:59:13 am ACST
  • Updated description of Bushfires NT Burn Permits from

    Bushfires NT (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) is responsible for administrating the Bushfires Management Act 2016. Section 46 of the Act states that a person may apply to a fire control officer or fire warden for a permit to light a fire in the open air on land within a Fire Management Zone or within a fire danger area during a fire danger period. An approved permit to burn is issued to an individual for a particular parcel(s) of land during a specified time frame. This spatial dataset displays those areas that have been issued with an approved permit to burn. The areas are displayed as a polygon on the web application NR Maps http://nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html Only those areas within the scheduled time frame are displayed. The dataset displayed on NR Maps does not include: - locations where Prescribed Burns are conducted - permits to burn within Emergency Response Areas (ERA's). Permits to burn within the ERA are authorised by the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service. For more information, please view https://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/fire-and-rescue-service/fire-safety/permits-burn
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    Bushfires NT (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) is responsible for administrating the Bushfires Management Act 2016. Section 46 of the Act states that a person may apply to a fire control officer or fire warden for a permit to light a fire in the open air on land within a Fire Management Zone or within a fire danger area during a fire danger period. An approved permit to burn is issued to an individual for a particular parcel(s) of land during a specified time frame. This spatial dataset displays those areas that have been issued with an approved permit to burn. The areas are displayed as a polygon on the web application NR Maps http://nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html Only those areas within the scheduled time frame are displayed. The dataset displayed on NR Maps does not include: - locations where Prescribed Burns are conducted - permits to burn within Emergency Response Areas (ERA's). Permits to burn within the ERA are authorised by the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service. For more information, please view https://www.pfes.nt.gov.au/permitstoburn