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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Powers in relation to civil defence emergency management

76: Power to require information

You could also call this:

"Authorities can ask you for information to help with emergencies"

The Director or a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group can ask you to give them information in writing. They can only ask for information that they think is necessary for managing civil defence emergencies. You have to give the information if you have it and it is not too hard or expensive for you to provide. The Director or the Group will tell you how to give the information, when to give it, and you have to give it to them for free.

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Part 5Powers in relation to civil defence emergency management

76Power to require information

  1. The Director, or a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, or a person acting under the authority of the Director or Group, may, by notice in writing, require any person to give the Director or the Group information described in subsection (2).

  2. The information referred to in subsection (1) is information that, in the opinion of the Director or the Group, as the case may be, is reasonably necessary for the exercise of civil defence emergency management by the Director or the Civil Defence Emergency Management Group, as the case may be, and that is—

  3. in the possession of the person who is asked to give the information; and
    1. capable of being provided without unreasonable difficulty or expense.

      1. The information required to be given under subsection (1) must be given—

      2. in the form specified by the Director or the Group; and
        1. within the reasonable time that is specified by the Director or the Group; and
          1. free of charge.