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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

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

19: Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups to follow model standing orders

You could also call this:

"Emergency groups must follow standard meeting rules or agree on their own rules that obey the law."

When you are part of a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, you have to follow some rules at meetings. These rules are called standing orders and they are based on the New Zealand Standard for standing orders (NZS: 9202:1992). You can agree to use different rules, but only if most of the group agrees.

You can choose to use other standing orders, but they must not go against the Local Government Act 2002 or the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987. This means you have to make sure your rules do not break any laws.

If you decide to use different standing orders, you have to be careful and make sure they are allowed under the law.

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Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups

19Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups to follow model standing orders

  1. Unless three-quarters of the representatives of the members of a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group present at a meeting of the Group agree otherwise, at its meetings the Group must follow the New Zealand Standard for standing orders (NZS: 9202:1992) or any New Zealand Standard substituted for that standard.

  2. If the representatives of the members of the Group agree in accordance with subsection (1) to adopt other standing orders, those standing orders must not contravene the provisions of the Local Government Act 2002, the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987, or any other enactment.

Notes
  • Section 19(2): amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).