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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Miscellaneous provisions - Transitional provisions

119: Provisions of Civil Defence Act 1983 that continue

You could also call this:

"Old civil defence rules that still apply until new ones are made"

When the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 came into effect, some parts of the old Civil Defence Act 1983 still applied. You need to know that these old rules kept working in each area until new plans were made. The old rules about what regional councils and territorial authorities can do kept going until they joined a new group and made a plan.

Some old rules about declaring emergencies, like sections 50 to 52 and 54 to 57 of the Civil Defence Act 1983, still applied for a while. You will see these rules stop applying when new emergency plans are made, either for a local or national emergency.

Other old rules, like sections 58 to 68 of the Civil Defence Act 1983, kept going while the emergency rules were still in place. Some general rules, like sections 73 to 79 of the Civil Defence Act 1983, also kept applying to help with the rules that were still in use.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions
Transitional provisions

119Provisions of Civil Defence Act 1983 that continue

  1. Sections 23 to 42 of the Civil Defence Act 1983 (which relate to the functions, duties, and powers of regional councils and territorial authorities) continue to apply in each district until the regional council or the territorial authority, as the case may be, has joined a Civil Defence Emergency Management Group and the first plan for that Group becomes operative.

  2. Sections 50 to 52 and 54 to 57 of the Civil Defence Act 1983 (which relate to the declaration of states of emergency) continue to apply until,—

  3. in the case of a local or regional emergency, the first relevant civil defence emergency management group plan becomes operative; and
    1. in the case of a national emergency, the first national civil defence emergency management plan becomes operative.

      1. Sections 58 to 68 of the Civil Defence Act 1983 (which relate to emergency powers) continue to apply while the provisions referred to in subsection (2) continue to apply.

      2. Repealed

      3. Sections 73 to 79 of the Civil Defence Act 1983 (which are general provisions) continue to apply for the purposes of provisions continued by this section.

      Notes
      • Section 119(4): repealed, at 9.59 pm on , by section 40 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 88).