Appointment and duties of the Chief Fire Officer

(1) There shall be appointed a Fire Chief who shall be responsible for the administration of this Act, and for the efficient conduct and administration of the Service. (2) The Fire Chief shall be appointed pursuant to section 106 of the Belize Constitution, Cap. 4 and, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, shall perform and discharge the following duties and functions, namely, (a) having overall control and responsibility over the expenditure of all monies appropriated to the Service from time to time by the National Assembly; (b) carrying out all necessary measures to ensure the proper and efficient functioning of the (c) overseeing and ensuring that all fire equipment, including fire engines and fire boats, are kept in good operating order and state of repair, and are used for the sole purpose of the Service; 9 (d) submitting to the Minister, on such dates as the Minister may specify, reports and information on the operations of the Service during the previous year, and including in any such reports , (i) information on the conditions of fire equipment and other property of the Service, especially the mechanical condition and adequacy of fire engines and fire boats; (ii) detailed information on the income and expenditure of the Service during the previous year; (iii) information about any fires or other disasters known to him to have occurred in during the previous year, and the estimated damage caused by such fires or other disasters, as well as the action taken by the Service in mitigating damage to, or loss of, life and property; (iv) information related to such other aspects of the not specifically referred to in subparagraphs (i) to (iii) above, and recommendations relating to the information supplied in such reports.