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National Fire and Rescue Authority Law, 5772-2012

חוק הרשות הארצית לכבאות והצלה, תשע"ב-2012

Published: 2012-08-08Consolidated Hebrew text as of 2026-06-21 · Last amended 2026-03-31✓ Amendment status checked against the Knesset legislation record on 2026-09-29
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Chapter IX: Provisions Concerning the Dissolution of Municipal Associations, Transfer of Employees and Assets and the Transitional Period

Definitions – Chapter IX§

97.

In this Chapter –

"municipal association" means a municipal association for firefighting and an association of local authorities for firefighting listed in the Second Schedule;

"determining date" means the 5th of Tevet 5772 (31 December 2011);

"movable property" has the meaning assigned to it in the Movable Property Law, 5731-1971;

"property supervisor" means an employee of the Ministry of Finance whom the Minister of Finance has authorised in respect of assets of local authorities that were used for firefighting purposes for the purposes of this Chapter;

"director" means the Director General of the Ministry of Internal Security or an employee of the Ministry authorised by him for the purposes of this Chapter;

"real property" has the meaning assigned to it in the Land Law, 5729-1969;

"municipal association asset" means each of the following:

(1)real property and movable property in which, or in respect of which, or in connection with which, a municipal association has any right on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, and which served or were intended to serve the municipal association on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority;
(2)rights in real property and in respect of real property within the areas of the municipal associations which were, on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, the property of the local authorities that were members of the municipal association;
(3)rights and benefits of any kind relating to the performance of firefighting service functions which the municipal association had on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority;

"firefighting services department asset" means each of the following:

(1)real property and movable property in which, or in respect of which, or in connection with which, a local authority has any right on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, and which served or were intended to serve the local authority that has a firefighting services department for the purpose of firefighting services on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority;
(2)rights and benefits of any kind relating to the performance of the functions of the firefighting services department that the local authority had on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority;

"assets" includes real property, rights in respect of real property and vehicles;

"transferring employee" means a person who was an employee of a municipal association or an employee of a firefighting services department in a local authority on the eve of the commencement of this Law, and who transferred to the Fire and Rescue Authority by virtue of this Law;

"local authority" means a regional council, local council or municipality that was a member of a municipal association listed in the Second Schedule or that had a firefighting services department and is listed in the Second Schedule;

"local authority having a firefighting services department" means a local authority listed in the Second Schedule that maintains a department responsible for the field of firefighting services within the jurisdiction of the local authority;

"transitional period" means the period between the day of commencement of this Law and the day of establishment of the Authority.

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Section A: Establishment Administration

Establishment Administration§
98.
(a)An administration for the establishment of the Fire and Rescue Authority (in this Law – the Establishment Administration) shall be set up within the Ministry of Internal Security, whose function shall be to carry out everything necessary for the establishment of the Authority, except in respect of powers vested in the property supervisor.
(b)The Director General of the Ministry of Internal Security shall head the Establishment Administration.
(c)The Establishment Administration shall operate until the day of establishment of the Authority, but the director's powers under this Chapter shall remain in force even after the establishment of the Authority and shall be vested in the Commissioner.
Power to Demand Information§
99.
(a)The Director or the Assets Commissioner may demand from a municipal association, a local authority and their heads, information and documents on any matter connected with fire services, and may inspect records and documents of a municipal association or local authority, including in respect of employees, assets, rights, debts and claims, all as required for the purpose of fulfilling their functions under this Chapter.
(b)A municipal association or local authority that has been required to provide information or documents pursuant to subsection (a) shall transmit them to the Director or to the Assets Commissioner, as the case may be, without delay and as early as possible.

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Section B: Transfer of Assets, Debts and Obligations

List of Assets, Debts and Obligations§
100.
(a)A municipal association shall provide the Assets Commissioner, within 30 days of the date of publication of this Law, with the list of assets, debts and obligations of the municipal association on the eve of the determining date, including detailed information in relation thereto.
(b)A local authority that has a fire services department shall transmit to the Assets Commissioner, within 60 days of the date of publication of this Law, the list of assets that served the department on the eve of the determining date, and the list of debts and obligations of the local authority in connection with the department on the eve of that date, including detailed information in relation thereto.
Transfer of Assets, Rights and Obligations§
101.
(a)On the day of establishment of the Authority, all of the following shall become property of the State, notwithstanding any law or any contract —
(1)in respect of a municipal association — all assets of the association as well as the rights, debts and obligations that the association had on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, excluding rights to pensions in respect of which the provisions of sections 105 and 107c of the State Service (Pensions) Law shall apply, and including compulsory payments lawfully imposed by the municipal association that have not yet been collected, as well as contingent, future, known and unknown obligations, subject to any right that existed therein on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority; the provisions of this paragraph shall apply subject to the provisions of section 29 of the Budget Foundations Law, and nothing therein shall derogate from the validity of a contract concerning wages or conditions of employment, including a collective agreement, to which the State is a party as employer;
(2)in respect of a local authority that has a fire services department — all assets of the local authority that served the fire services department, as well as the rights, debts and obligations of the local authority in connection with the fire services department on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, excluding rights to pensions in respect of which the provisions of sections 105 and 107c of the State Service (Pensions) Law shall apply, and including compulsory payments lawfully imposed by the local authority that have not yet been collected, as well as contingent, future, known and unknown obligations, subject to any right that existed therein on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority; the provisions of this paragraph shall apply subject to the provisions of section 29 of the Budget Foundations Law, and nothing therein shall derogate from the validity of a contract concerning wages or conditions of employment, including a collective agreement, to which the State is a party as employer;
(3)notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), where an asset of a municipal association or local authority is a right in real property or in respect of real property (in this section — a real property asset), the asset shall not be conveyed to the State until the Assets Commissioner has determined the list of real property assets of the municipal association or of the local authority to be conveyed to the State (in this Chapter — the Commissioner's list) within 30 days of the day of establishment of the Authority, and has given notice to the municipal association or local authority of the intention to include it in the list 15 days prior to its determination; the Assets Commissioner may amend the list in accordance with the provisions under section 114;
(4)where a local authority considers that an asset included in the Commissioner's list did not serve fire services, it may apply to the Minister of Finance within 30 days of the date on which the Commissioner's list was determined, requesting that the asset not be included in the Commissioner's list, and the Minister of Finance shall decide the matter after affording it an opportunity to be heard;
(5)where the Minister of Finance considers that an asset of a municipal association or an asset of a fire services department also serves uses not related to the performance of fire services functions, he may direct by Order that that part of the asset be conveyed to the State; where he so directs, that part of the asset shall become property of the State under this Chapter; a local authority may apply to the Minister of Finance within 30 days of the date on which such an Order was made, requesting that the asset not be included in the Order; the submission of an application to the Minister of Finance under this paragraph shall not stay the conveyance of possession to the State;
(6)
(a)notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2), during the period up to the day of establishment of the Authority, a local authority may, on planning considerations, submit to the Assets Commissioner a proposal to convey to the State a real property asset in lieu of an asset of a municipal association or an asset of a fire services department in which that authority has any right or in respect of which it has any right or a right connected therewith (in this paragraph — an alternative asset), provided that the alternative asset is similar in its characteristics, including its area, the buildings and equipment located therein, its designation and the possible land uses therein, under any law, to the asset of the municipal association or the asset of the fire services department in whose place it is proposed;
(b)the local authority's proposal under this paragraph shall include the particulars of the alternative asset, shall be reasoned, and shall set out the planning considerations that form its basis;
(c)the Assets Commissioner shall decide whether to accept the local authority's proposal, after consultation with the Commissioner; where the Assets Commissioner has accepted the local authority's proposal, the alternative asset shall become property of the State on the day of establishment of the Authority.
(b)The Assets Commissioner may determine an earlier date than the day of establishment of the Authority for the conveyance of an asset of a municipal association or an asset of a fire services department to the State, if that would serve the establishment of the Authority; where such a determination has been made and the asset is a real property asset, the provisions of subsection (a)(3) shall apply, with the necessary modifications.
(c)
(1)Where the State seeks, during the five years from the day of establishment of the Authority, to sell a real property asset conveyed to it under subsection (a)(1) or (2), or to cease using it, the State shall offer the local authority within whose jurisdiction the asset is located the option to purchase it at a price to be determined by the Chief Government Valuer, or in accordance with an updated valuation to be carried out according to the designation of the land as it was on the day of establishment of the Authority; where the local authority refuses the offer within 30 days of the date of the offer, the State shall be entitled to sell the asset or to use it at its discretion; for this purpose, the absence of a reply shall be deemed a refusal;
(2)notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), where the State seeks, during the five years from the day of establishment of the Authority, to cease using a real property asset conveyed to it under subsection (a)(1) or (2), for security reasons, including reasons relating to state security and public security, as well as emergency and rescue considerations, the State shall be entitled to use the asset at its discretion.
Registration of Real Property Assets§
102.
(a)The Assets Commissioner shall submit to the Land Registrar an application for the registration of the State's rights in real property registered in the land registers, which have been conveyed to the State pursuant to section 101, in accordance with a form prescribed by the Minister of Justice; the application shall be submitted within 90 days of the day of establishment of the Authority, provided that the period prescribed in section 101(a)(4) for submitting the application to the Minister of Finance has elapsed; where the application concerns the registration of a right registered in the name of a local authority or in the name of a municipal association, in real property registered in the land registers, the Commissioner's list shall be attached to the application.
(b)Where an application has been submitted to the Minister pursuant to section 101(a)(4), the Assets Commissioner shall submit to the Land Registrar an application for the registration of the State's rights in real property as referred to in subsection (a), only after the Minister of Finance has given a decision in the matter.
(c)The Land Registrar shall register in the land registers, pursuant to an application as referred to in subsection (a), the State's rights in the real property, and no additional documents or approvals beyond the application for registration shall be required as a condition for registering the right, including a transaction deed, a power of attorney from the local authority or the municipal association, and any document or approval constituting proof that compulsory payments have been made.
Legal Proceedings§
103.

Every legal proceeding by or against a municipal association and every legal proceeding by or against a local authority that has a fire services department, in connection with fire services, that was pending on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, as well as every cause of action for a legal proceeding by or against a municipal association, and by or against a local authority that has a fire services department, in connection with fire services, that existed at that time, including in respect of fees and fines, and excluding causes of action and claims in legal proceedings of a municipal association or local authority against the State, shall continue to be valid and shall be deemed as if they were of the State or against the State, as the case may be, on the day of establishment of the Authority.

Registration of Vehicles§
104.
(a)Notwithstanding any law, the Licensing Authority at the Ministry of Transport shall register, at the request of the Assets Commissioner, the change of ownership of vehicles whose ownership has been conveyed to the State; the application shall be submitted within 90 days of the day of establishment of the Authority.
(b)Nothing in the change of ownership referred to in subsection (a) shall prejudice a pledge, a right of lien, another right of a third party or an attachment that was imposed on the vehicles.
(c)Nothing in the provisions of subsection (a) shall derogate from the obligation to pay any tax or fee that existed in relation to the vehicle, and nothing therein shall delay the registration of the change of ownership of the vehicles.
Transfer of Possession to the State§
105.
(a)Notwithstanding any law or any contract, the State shall be entitled to take possession of assets conveyed to it pursuant to this Law, on the day of establishment of the Authority, subject to the rights of another person to hold them.
(b)A municipal association, a local authority or another person holding an asset conveyed to the State shall transfer possession thereof to the State as referred to in subsection (a), unless the Assets Commissioner has determined a different date for the transfer of possession; where the Assets Commissioner has so determined, the person holding the asset shall transfer possession thereof on the date determined.
(c)No dispute whatsoever concerning the payments to be made in respect of the transfer of assets, insofar as such payments are due in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, shall delay the transfer of possession thereof.
Exemption from Compulsory Payments§
106.

The transfer of assets, debts and obligations under this Chapter, including their registration, shall be exempt from payment of any tax, fee, levy or other compulsory payment payable under law or agreement; however, nothing in the foregoing shall exempt a person from any liability for tax, fee, levy or compulsory payment that applied to the owner or holder of an asset on the eve of its transfer to the ownership of the State.

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