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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions

118: Civil defence plans to continue

You could also call this:

"Old civil defence plans keep working until new ones are made"

If you are wondering what happens to the civil defence plans that were already in place when the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 started, you should know that they keep working. The national civil defence plans that were in force before the Act started keep going until a new national civil defence emergency management plan starts. You will have a new plan when this happens.

If you are looking at regional civil defence plans, they also keep working until two things happen: the regional council joins a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group and a new civil defence emergency management group plan for your area starts. This means you will have a new plan for your region when this happens. You will know when the new plan starts.

The same thing happens with local civil defence plans: they keep working until the territorial authority joins a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group and a new plan for your area starts. You will have a new local plan when this happens. This is how the old plans keep working until the new ones start.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions

118Civil defence plans to continue

  1. Every national civil defence plan in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues in force until the first national civil defence emergency management plan becomes operative.

  2. Every regional civil defence plan in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues in force until—

  3. the regional council has joined a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group; and
    1. the first civil defence emergency management group plan for the area becomes operative.

      1. Every local civil defence plan in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues in force until—

      2. the territorial authority has joined a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group; and
        1. the first civil defence emergency management group plan for the area becomes operative.