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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties - Duties of lifeline utilities

60: Duties of lifeline utilities

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"Lifeline utilities must plan to keep working during emergencies and help with emergency planning and advice."

If you are a lifeline utility, you must be able to work as well as you can during and after an emergency. You have to make a plan for how you will keep working during and after an emergency and give it to the Director when they ask for it. You also have to help make the national civil defence emergency management strategy and plans.

You must give technical advice for free to any Civil Defence Emergency Management Group or the Director if they need it. This advice should help them with their work. You have to make sure that any information you get is only used for the purposes of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act.

If someone tells you something, you can only use that information to help with emergencies, or tell someone else if it will help with emergencies.

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Part 3Civil defence emergency management planning and civil defence emergency management duties
Duties of lifeline utilities

60Duties of lifeline utilities

  1. Every lifeline utility 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:
      1. participate in the development of the national civil defence emergency management strategy and civil defence emergency management plans:
        1. provide, free of charge, any technical advice to any Civil Defence Emergency Management Group or the Director that may be reasonably required by that Group or the Director:
          1. ensure that any information that is disclosed to the lifeline utility is used by the lifeline utility, or disclosed to another person, only for the purposes of this Act.