Section 5: Provision of equipment, training and inspection of buildings etc.

The Minister may make provision for fire-fighting, fire prevention and the alleviation of distress, and in particular may secure-
(a) the service of such fire equipment as may be necessary and practicable to meet efficiently all normal requirements;
(b) the efficient training of members of the Fire Service;
(c) efficient arrangements for dealing with calls for the assistance of the Fire Service in case of fire or other emergency;
(d) efficient arrangements for obtaining by inspection or otherwise information required for fire-fighting and fire prevention purposes with respect to the character of buildings and other property, the available water supplies and the means of access thereto, and other material circumstances; and-
(i) for the purposes of such arrangements any member of the Fire Service shall be empowered to enter any building or other property at all reasonable hours if authorised so to do in writing by the Fire Commissioner;
(ii) if any member of the Fire Service so authorised, as required by sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph, to enter any building or other property is refused admission thereto the court, on the ex parte application of the Fire Commissioner or of the member so authorised, may order the person having custody of the said building or other property to admit the member thereto;
(iii) any such court order shall continue in force until the purposes for which the entry was necessary have been fulfilled;
(e) efficient arrangements for the giving, when requested, of advice in respect of buildings and other property as to fire prevention or the restriction of the spread of fires, and as to means of escape in case of fire.