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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties - Civil defence emergency management group plans

52: Procedure for making civil defence emergency management group plans

You could also call this:

"How a Civil Defence Emergency Group makes a plan and listens to your ideas"

When a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group wants to make a plan, you need to know they must give public notice. They tell people about their proposal to make a plan and say how long people have to make submissions on it. You can make submissions to the Group or a subgroup of the Group.

If you make written submissions, the Group gives you a chance to be heard. They also make all submissions available to the public, unless there's a good reason not to. The Group makes the final decision on the proposal at a meeting.

The time for making submissions is at least one month, but usually not more than three months, unless the Group decides otherwise.

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Civil defence emergency management group plans

52Procedure for making civil defence emergency management group plans

  1. Before making a civil defence emergency management group plan, a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group must—

  2. give public notice, and any specific notice that the Group considers appropriate, of the proposal to make a plan; and
    1. specify in every notice given under paragraph (a) a period within which persons interested in the proposal may make submissions on the proposal to—
      1. the Group; or
        1. a subgroup or committee of the Group; and
        2. ensure that any person who makes written submissions on the proposal within the period specified in the notice given under paragraph (a) is given a reasonable opportunity to be heard by the body to which the submissions are made; and
          1. make all written submissions on the proposal available to the public unless there is some good reason in law why it should not do so; and
            1. ensure that the final decision in relation to the proposal is made at a meeting of the Group.

              1. The period specified under subsection (1)(b)—

              2. must not be less than 1 month; and
                1. unless the Group otherwise directs, must not be more than 3 months.