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Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002

Miscellaneous provisions

115A: Permanent legislative authority for payment of certain expenses

You could also call this:

"The government can pay for some emergency costs without extra approval."

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The Crown can pay for certain expenses without needing extra approval. You might wonder what kind of expenses these are. The Crown can reimburse a local authority or Watercare Services Limited for expenses they incurred during an emergency, but only if the expenses are for civil defence emergency management activities.

The expenses must also meet certain criteria that were set out in a Government policy before the emergency happened. This means the Government had already decided what kinds of expenses would be allowed.

The Crown can use public money to pay for these expenses, as long as they follow the rules set out in the policy.

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Part 7Miscellaneous provisions

115APermanent legislative authority for payment of certain expenses

  1. The Crown may, without further appropriation than this section, incur expenses to reimburse a local authority or a water organisation for, or to pay public money for the purpose of meeting, expenses incurred by a local authority or a water organisation in connection with an emergency if the expenses—

  2. are incurred in respect of civil defence emergency management activities; and
    1. meet the criteria for being reimbursed or paid in a Government policy that was in force before the emergency occurred.

      1. In this section, water organisation has the same meaning as in section 4 of the Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025.

      Notes
      • Section 115A: inserted, at 9.59 pm on , by section 39 of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 88).
      • Section 115A(1): amended, on , by section 4(1) of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).
      • Section 115A(1): amended, on , by section 117 of the Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024 (2024 No 31).
      • Section 115A(2): inserted, on , by section 4(2) of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).