Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties - National civil defence emergency management plan

39: National civil defence emergency management plan

You could also call this:

"New Zealand's Emergency Plan: How We Stay Safe"

The Governor-General can make a national civil defence emergency management plan with the Minister's recommendation. You need to know this plan states what hazards and risks New Zealand faces and how they will be managed. It also says what the objectives of the plan are and how long the plan will last.

The plan must describe how to manage hazards and risks, and what to do during a state of national emergency or a national transition period. It tells you how the different parts of civil defence emergency management will work together. The plan can also give someone the power to make decisions, as described in section 88.

An order to make this plan is a type of law called secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. You can find more information about this in the Legislation Act. This helps you understand how the plan is made and what it does.

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National civil defence emergency management plan

39National civil defence emergency management plan

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make a national civil defence emergency management plan.

  2. The national civil defence emergency management plan must state and provide for—

  3. the hazards and risks to be managed at the national level:
    1. the civil defence emergency management necessary at the national level to manage the hazards and risks described under paragraph (a):
      1. the objectives of the plan and the relationship of each objective to the national civil defence emergency management strategy:
        1. the co-ordination of civil defence emergency management during a state of national emergency or a national transition period:
          1. the period for which the plan remains in force.
            1. The national civil defence emergency management plan may authorise a person to exercise the power in section 88.

            2. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

            Notes
            • Section 39(2)(d): amended, at 9.59 pm on , by section 18 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 88).
            • Section 39(4): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).