Part 4Declaration of state of emergency
General provisions applying to declaration of state of national emergency or state of local emergency
71Extension of duration of state of emergency
Before a state of national emergency expires, the Minister may, by declaration, extend the state of national emergency.
Before a state of local emergency expires, a person authorised to declare a state of local emergency for an area may, by declaration, extend the state of local emergency.
An extension of a state of emergency comes into force—
- immediately before the state of emergency would have expired under section 70(3); or
- if the state of emergency was previously extended under this section, immediately before that extension would have expired under subsection (4).
An extension of a state of emergency expires 7 days after the time and date on which the extension of the state of emergency comes into force.
Nothing in this section prevents—
- the further extension of a state of emergency that has been extended under this section; or
- the termination of a state of emergency under section 72.
For the purposes of this section, 7 days after the time and date on which the extension of the state of emergency comes into force means a period that—
- begins immediately after the time of the day on which the extension comes into force; and
- ends immediately before the same time of the day on the date that is 7 days after the day on which the extension comes into force.
Notes
- Section 71: replaced, on , by section 8 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 6).