Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Appointment, functions, and powers of persons involved in civil defence emergency management - Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups

12: Local authorities to establish Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups

You could also call this:

"Councils must work together to create a team to help keep people safe in emergencies."

When this law starts, local councils must work together to create a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group. You can find out more about how they do this in the Local Government Act 2002. They have to do this within six months.

If you are in a unitary authority area, your council will create a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group. They might work with other councils to do this, or they might do it on their own. You can read about how they set up these groups in clause 30(1)(a) or clause 30(1)(b) of the Local Government Act 2002.

Some rules about local government do not apply to these Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups. You can find out more about this in clause 30(5) or (7) of the Local Government Act 2002. The Minister of Local Government does not have to be part of a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.

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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

  1. Within 6 months after the date of the commencement of this Act,—

  2. 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:
    1. 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:
      1. 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.
        1. 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.

        2. 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.

        3. 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).