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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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Section C: Regulation of Payments

Definitions – Section C§
107.

In this Section —

"pensioner" — a person who, on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, was a pensioner of a municipal association for fire-fighting or of a local authority that has a fire services department, to whom a pension was paid from the fund of the association or the local authority, as the case may be;

"the allocation" — as defined in section 31b of the Budget Foundations Law;

"local authority's participation in the budget of a municipal association" — the proportionate share of the local authority in the budget of a municipal association for fire-fighting;

"employee" — a person who was, on the eve of the day of establishment of the Authority, an employee of a municipal association for fire-fighting or of a local authority that has a fire services department;

"budget of a municipal association for fire-fighting" — the budget approved pursuant to law for the year 2011, including the current budget as well as the financial entitlements of employees vis-à-vis the association by virtue of employer-employee relations that existed between them in respect of the period of their being employees of the association, including wages, retirement terms, pensions or other financial benefits related to employment, and the financial entitlements of pensioners vis-à-vis the association by virtue of such relations, including their right to pension payments;

"budget of the fire services department of the local authority" — the budget approved pursuant to law in the budget of the local authority for the year 2011, including the current budget as well as the financial entitlements of employees vis-à-vis the local authority by virtue of employer-employee relations that existed between them in respect of the period of their being employees of the local authority, including wages, retirement terms, pensions or other financial benefits related to employment, and the financial entitlements of pensioners vis-à-vis the local authority by virtue of such relations, including their right to pension payments, and excluding the sum specified in the budget of the local authority for that year, if specified, under the item "fire-fighting services fee".

Absence of Entitlement to Compensation§
108.

A local authority and a municipal association shall not be entitled to compensation in respect of the assets and rights conveyed to the State except pursuant to this Chapter.

Local Authority Payments§
109.
(a)A local authority shall transfer to the State Treasury each year, over a period of five years commencing on the day of establishment of the Authority, an annual amount as set out below in Column A or Column B, as the case may be:

In this subsection –

"budget participation" – the amount of participation of a local authority in the budget of a municipal association or the budget of the fire services department of the local authority, as the case may be;

"grant" – an equalisation grant from the Ministry of the Interior under an annual budget law, a Capital City grant under an annual budget law, or a grant from the Ministry of the Interior received by a local authority ranked in cluster 1 of the periphery index of the Central Bureau of Statistics; for this purpose, "annual budget law" – as defined in the Budget Foundations Law.

(b)The amounts referred to in subsection (a) shall be transferred in three equal instalments in the months of February, June and October; however, the first payment date shall be at the end of two months from the day of establishment of the Authority.
(c)For the purposes of this Section, the Minister of Finance shall, by Order published in Reshumot (Official Gazette), determine the following matters:
(1)the participation of local authorities in the budget of municipal associations;
(2)the budget of the fire services department of the local authority.
(d)The determination of Orders under subsection (d) shall be made on the basis of data concerning the participation of local authorities in the budget of a municipal association or concerning the budget of a fire services department of a local authority, in the year 2011.
(e)
(1)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 36, where a local authority that has a fire services department has requested that the Fire and Rescue Authority allocate firefighters and equipment for an event held on its behalf within the five years from the day of establishment of the Authority, the amount deducted from the payment for the allocation referred to shall be an amount at the rate referred to in subsection (a), as the case may be; in this subsection, "event" – a municipal event similar in nature to an event as referred to in section 37(1), or an event as referred to in section 37(2) in relation to the payment required as referred to in that section;
(2)a payment as referred to in paragraph (1) shall not be deducted except in respect of a number of events not exceeding the number of events held in the year 2010 on behalf of that local authority.
Local Authority Payments
Rate of Budget Participation
YearColumn A – Local authority that did not receive a grant in that yearColumn B – Local authority that received a grant in that year
201390%60%
201490%40%
201580%30%
201680%30%
201760%30%
Request for Consideration§
110.
(a)A local authority may apply to the Assets Commissioner for consideration in respect of assets that are real property or rights in or over real property (in this Section – real property) or vehicles, that were conveyed to the State under this Chapter, within 60 days of the date of establishment of the Authority; the Assets Commissioner may extend the said period by one additional period not exceeding 30 days.
(b)An application by a local authority under subsection (a) shall include particulars of the real property assets or vehicles conveyed from the local authority to the State, as the case may be, including their claimed value, and shall also include particulars of the claimed value of the authority's liabilities that were transferred to the State and its actuarial liabilities.
(c)Where a local authority has submitted an application under subsection (a), the following provisions shall apply:
(1)No later than 45 days after receipt of the application, the Assets Commissioner shall transmit its particulars to the Chief Government Valuer or his representative (in this Section – the Government Valuer) and to the Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance or his representative (in this Section – the Accountant General);
(2)The Government Valuer shall determine the value of the real property assets conveyed from the local authority to the State (in this Section – the real property value); where the local authority was a member of a municipal association listed in the Second Schedule, the Government Valuer shall determine its proportionate share in the value of those assets in accordance with the local authority's proportionate share in the association's budget as referred to in paragraph (6);
(3)In determining the value of the real property and vehicles, the investments made by the State in the asset for the purpose of acquiring, establishing or financing it shall be deducted; for the purposes of this paragraph, where the asset was a real property asset in respect of which rights were transferred from the State to the local authority without consideration or for reduced consideration, including by way of expropriation, the full value of the asset as determined by the Government Valuer, less the consideration paid by the local authority to the State, if any, shall be deemed to be an investment made by the State;
(4)The Accountant General shall determine the value of the vehicles and of the local authority's liabilities that were conveyed to the State, including its actuarial liabilities in respect of an employee or pensioner (in this Section – the liabilities and vehicles value); the calculation of actuarial liabilities shall be made on the basis of actuarial assumptions and in the manner in which the calculation would have been made in respect of budgetary pension payments to State employees, all as at the date of establishment of the Authority; without derogating from the provisions of this paragraph, where the local authority was a member of a municipal association listed in the Second Schedule, the Accountant General shall determine its proportionate share in the liabilities and vehicles value in accordance with its proportionate share in the association's budget as referred to in paragraph (6);
(5)A local authority that disputes a real property valuation as referred to in paragraph (2) shall be entitled to apply to the objections committee established under section 9a of the Land Acquisition Ordinance (Acquisition for Public Purposes), 1943; the provisions of that Ordinance shall apply to the submission of an objection and to the rules of procedure, with the necessary modifications; a decision of the objections committee as referred to in this paragraph may be appealed before an Administrative Affairs Court;
(6)The share of a local authority that was a member of a municipal association in the real property value and in the liabilities and vehicles value shall be calculated according to its share in the sum of participation of the member local authorities in the association's budget in the year 2011;
(7)Where the real property and vehicles value exceeds the liabilities value as referred to in paragraph (4), the difference shall stand to the credit of the local authority; where the liabilities value exceeds the real property and vehicles value, the difference shall stand to the debit of the local authority;
(8)The Assets Commissioner shall notify the local authority, within 90 days of the date on which he transmitted the particulars of the application submitted under this Section to the Government Valuer and to the Accountant General, of the amount standing to its credit or to its debit, and shall append to his notice the particulars of all the real property assets, liabilities and vehicles forming the basis of the calculation;
(9)A local authority may submit its comments to the Assets Commissioner within 90 days of the date on which the Commissioner's notice was delivered to it;
(10)The Assets Commissioner shall render his final decision within 90 days of the date on which the local authority's comments were delivered to him;
(11)Amounts due to the local authority from the State or from the local authority to the State shall be paid, as the case may be, in equal annual instalments over five years;
(12)A local authority that has submitted an application under this Section shall bear the costs of the preparation of the valuation or calculation by the Government Valuer or the Accountant General.
(d)For the purposes of this Section, "vehicle" –
(1)a vehicle in respect of which all of the following conditions are met:
(a)it moves by mechanical power on land, including a three-wheeled vehicle, motorcycle, motorised scooter, tractor, all-terrain vehicle or mobile machine;
(b)it is registered in accordance with the Traffic Ordinance [New Version] and holds a valid vehicle licence under that Ordinance as at the date of the calculation under subsection (c)(4);
(c)its sole purpose is the transport of passengers or fire-fighting and rescue;
(2)a vehicle or machine that is towed, provided that its sole purpose is the transport of passengers or fire-fighting and rescue.
No Cause for Delay§
111.

Without derogating from the generality of the provisions of section 101, the submission of an application under section 110(a), the proceedings for handling such an application, a dispute as to the amount of consideration to be paid for the assets and rights, or the submission of a claim for consideration as aforesaid, shall not constitute a cause for delaying the conveyance of possession thereof.

Powers in the Absence of Payment§
112.
(a)Where a local authority has not transferred the amounts under this Chapter, in whole or in part, at the rates and times prescribed under this Chapter, for any reason whatsoever, the following provisions shall apply to it:
(1)The Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance shall deduct from the allocations transferred to the local authority from the State budget, to the extent that they are transferred, amounts equal to the amounts that the local authority is required to transfer under this Chapter;
(2)Where no allocations as referred to in paragraph (1) are transferred to the local authority, or where the amounts of the allocations deducted under that paragraph do not cover the amount that the local authority is required to transfer under this Chapter, the Accountant General or his representative shall notify the District Commissioner at the Ministry of the Interior accordingly, and he shall exercise his powers under section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Ordinance, or under section 36 of the Local Councils Ordinance, for the purpose of ensuring that the local authority fulfils its obligations.
(b)Nothing in the provisions of this Section shall derogate from other collection methods available to the State under any law.
Linkage to Index§
113.

For the purposes of this Chapter, a local authority's participation in the budget of a municipal association and the budget of the local authority's fire services department shall be updated on 1 January of each year, according to the rate of increase of the new index as against the base index; in this Section –

"new index" – the Consumer Price Index published by the Central Bureau of Statistics in December of the year preceding the date of the charge;

"base index" – the Consumer Price Index published by the Central Bureau of Statistics for December 2011.

Regulations Concerning the Transfer of Assets§
114.

The Minister of Finance may prescribe provisions concerning the transfer of assets under this Chapter, including in the following matters:

(1)the manner and times for making payments under this Chapter;
(2)the methods for correcting the Commissioner's list prescribed under section 101(a)(3).

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Section D: The Transitional Period

Transfer of Employees§
115.
(a)A person who was an employee of a municipal association or of a fire services department of a local authority on the eve of the date of establishment of the Authority, and who was lawfully engaged in his employment, shall, on the date of establishment of the Authority, become an employee of the Authority; the Commissioner shall determine the assignment of an employee to a post in the Authority, subject to the approved establishment of the Authority.
(b)Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a person who was an employee of a municipal association or of a fire services department of a local authority on the eve of the date of establishment of the Authority, and who was engaged in his employment before the 23rd day of Tevet 5760 (1 January 2000), shall, on the date of establishment of the Authority, become an employee of the Authority; the Commissioner shall determine the assignment of an employee to a post in the Authority, subject to the approved establishment of the Authority.
(c)A person who was unlawfully engaged in his employment as referred to in subsection (a), and to whom subsection (b) does not apply, shall be deemed to be an employee who has been dismissed or an employee who has resigned.
Prohibition of New Engagements§
116.
(a)From the date of the adoption of this Law by the Knesset, a municipal association shall not enter into an engagement whose period, including any extension period in respect of which an option exists, its performance and the rights and obligations thereunder extend beyond the date of establishment of the Authority, except with the prior written approval of the Director and the Assets Commissioner, and also the prior written approval of an accompanying accountant, if one has been appointed to the municipal association under the provisions of section 121; an engagement that has not been approved as aforesaid – is void.
(b)From the date of the adoption of this Law by the Knesset, an undertaking by a municipal association to carry out a real property transaction, or a transaction whose financial scope exceeds an amount to be determined by the Director and the Assets Commissioner, including a compromise agreement and a waiver of a right of a financial scope as aforesaid, requires the prior written approval of the Director and the Assets Commissioner, and also the prior written approval of an accompanying accountant, if one has been appointed to the municipal association under the provisions of section 121; an engagement that has not been approved as aforesaid – is void.
(c)The provisions of this Section shall also apply to an engagement by a local authority in connection with fire and rescue services and in connection with a fire services department and its assets, with the necessary modifications and with the following modification: instead of "accompanying accountant" read "representative of the Accountant General".
Prohibition of Employment of New Employees§
117.
(a)From the date of the adoption of this Law by the Knesset, a municipal association shall not take on new employees except with the prior written approval of the Director, and also the prior written approval of an accompanying accountant, if one has been appointed to the municipal association under the provisions of section 121.
(b)The provisions of this Section shall also apply to the taking on and employment of employees through a manpower contractor, as defined in the Employment of Employees by Manpower Contractors Law, 5756-1996.
(c)Where a person has been appointed without approval as referred to in this Section – the appointment is void; however, that person shall be entitled to reasonable remuneration for the period of his employment, unless it has been proved that he knew that his employment required approval as referred to in this Section and that no such approval was given.
(d)The provisions of this Section shall also apply to the employment of employees by a local authority for the purposes of fire and rescue, with the necessary modifications and with the following modification: instead of "accompanying accountant" read "representative of the Accountant General".
Savings of Provisions§
118.

Nothing in the provisions of this Section shall derogate from the provisions of any law applicable to transactions of a municipal association or of a local authority.

Regulation of the Tenure of the Fire and Rescue Commissioner§
119.

From the date of commencement of this Law, a person who served on the eve of the commencement of this Law as Fire and Rescue Commissioner and Inspector shall be deemed to be a Fire and Rescue Commissioner appointed under this Law, even if the Fire and Rescue Authority has not yet been established; the tenure of the Chief Fire Inspector shall end, and all his powers under any law shall vest in the Commissioner.

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