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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties - General duties of government departments and others

58: Departments and interdepartmental ventures to prepare plans to continue functioning during and after emergency

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"Government departments must have a plan to keep working during emergencies"

When there is an emergency, you want the government to keep working. Every government department must make sure it can still do its job, even if it's not working as well as usual. The department must have a plan for how it will keep working during and after an emergency.

You can ask the department for its plan, and it must give it to you in writing. The department sends its plan to the Director when they ask for it. This helps the government keep working to help people during an emergency.

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Part 3Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties
General duties of government departments and others

58Departments and interdepartmental ventures to prepare plans to continue functioning during and after emergency

  1. Every department must—

  2. ensure that it is able to function to the fullest possible extent, even though this may be at a reduced level, during and after an emergency:
    1. make available to the Director in writing, on request, its plan for functioning during and after an emergency.

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      • s 43
      Notes
      • Section 58 heading: amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).