A Service shall comply with the following minimum requirements before it may be recognised as a designated service:
| (a) | Such service shall be operative 24 hours per day; |
| (b) | a full-time Chief Fire Officer referred to in section 5 of the Act, shall be appointed in charge of such service; |
| (c) | such service shall consist of trained full-time or part-time members or members of a fire brigade reserve force or a combination thereof; |
| (d) | such service shall have at its disposal the equipment to cope with the risk at hand; and |
| (e) | such service shall apply fire prevention and fire fighting methods which are sufficient to cope with the risk at hand. |
