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Fire brigades acting outside their district.
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4.—(1) A fire brigade authority may authorise the officer having command of their fire brigade, to send such fire brigade to fires occurring outside the sanitary district of such fire brigade authority and may in such authorisation specify the circumstances in which and the conditions (including conditions as to distance) under which such fire brigade is so to be sent outside such district.
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(2) Where a fire brigade is sent under this section to and renders services in relation to a fire outside the sanitary district of the fire brigade authority by which such fire brigade is maintained, a fee calculated in accordance with the scale prepared under the next following sub-section of this section and for the time being in force, shall be paid on demand to such fire brigade authority by—
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(a) the occupier of the land, buildings, or other property in which such fire occurred if, but only if, such occupier or his servant or agent, before such fire brigade was sent to such fire, requested or consented to the sending thereof, or
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(b) in any other case, the sanitary authority of the sanitary district in which such fire occurred.
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(3) Every fire brigade authority which authorises under this section the officer having command of their fire brigade to send such fire brigade to fires occurring outside their district shall prepare a scale of fees to be charged and paid for services rendered by such fire brigade in relation to such fires.
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(4) Where an agreement made under this Act is in force between a fire brigade authority and a sanitary authority for the use of the fire brigade of such fire brigade authority in the sanitary district or a part of the sanitary district of such sanitary authority, such sanitary district or such part thereof (as the case may be) shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to be in the sanitary district of such fire brigade authority.
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