Part 2Appointment, functions, and powers of persons involved in civil defence emergency management
Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups
12Local authorities to establish Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups
Within 6 months after the date of the commencement of this Act,—
- every regional council and every territorial authority within that region must unite to establish a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group for the purposes of this Act as a joint standing committee under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002:
- subject to paragraph (c), a unitary authority must establish a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group for the purposes of this Act as a committee under clause 30(1)(a) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002:
- instead of establishing a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group in accordance with paragraph (b), a unitary authority may unite with a unitary authority or unitary authorities that border it, or a regional council that borders it, or all or any of them, to establish a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group for the purposes of this Act as a joint standing committee under clause 30(1)(b) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002.
If subsection (1)(b) applies and subsection (1)(c) does not apply, a unitary authority is a Group rather than a member of a Group for the purposes of this Act.
Clause 30(5) or (7) of Schedule 7 of the Local Government Act 2002 must not be read as permitting, during a term of local government or as a consequence of a local government election, the discharge or reconstitution of a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group established for the purposes of this Act.
Nothing in this section requires the Minister of Local Government to be a member of a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.
Notes
- Section 12(1)(a): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).
- Section 12(1)(b): replaced, at 9.59 pm on , by section 9(1) of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 88).
- Section 12(1)(c): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).
- Section 12(1A): inserted, at 9.59 pm on , by section 9(2) of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 88).
- Section 12(2): amended, on , by section 4 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 6).
- Section 12(2): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).