Fire Safety Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3B · Alarm Monitoring Services
53. Failure to verify fire, etc., before cancelling request
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Where a request is made to the Commissioner to extinguish a fire or protect life and property from a fire, or to contain or mitigate the escape of any petroleum or flammable material, at any building, the licensee providing alarm monitoring services for the building must take all reasonable steps to ascertain that there is no fire or escape of petroleum or flammable material (as the case may be) at the building before cancelling the request.
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Civil Defence appointed under section 6 of the Civil Defence Act 1986;
Any licensee who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.
In this section, “request” includes the transmission, on a communication link, of a signal from an alarm system to the alarm monitoring network kept by the Force.[22M
communication link
“communication link” means the part of an alarm monitoring system that transmits a signal from the system to an alarm monitoring network;