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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - National role-holders - National Recovery Manager

20: Role of National Recovery Manager

You could also call this:

"Who is in charge of helping New Zealand recover from emergencies?"

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The National Recovery Manager is either the Director-General or their delegate. You need to know the Director-General can choose someone to do their job. They can do this to help with a national transition period. The Director-General has all the powers of the National Recovery Manager if they do not choose a delegate. If they do choose a delegate, that person has all the powers of the National Recovery Manager while the delegation is in force. The Director-General can make this choice at any time. The Director-General's choice of delegate is covered by section 22. You can also look at section 170 to see what information the National Recovery Manager can ask for.

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19: Role of National Controller, or

"Who is the National Controller and what do they do?"

21: Delegation of powers of Director-General, or

"The Director-General can give some of their jobs to other employees."

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
National role-holders: National Recovery Manager

20Role of National Recovery Manager

The National Recovery Manager is—
the Director-General; or
if a delegation under subsection (2) is in force, the Director-General’s delegate.

The Director-General may, in writing, delegate any or all of the functions and powers of the Director-General referred to in sections 14(i) and 15(2) to any person for the purpose of dealing with a national transition period.
If no delegation has been made under subsection (2), the Director-General has all the powers conferred on the National Recovery Manager by this Act.
A person to whom functions and powers are delegated under subsection (2), while the delegation is in force, has all the powers conferred on the National Recovery Manager by this Act.
The Director-General may exercise the power of delegation at any time, whether or not a national transition period is in force or is imminent.
Section 22 applies to an exercise of the power of delegation under this section.
See section 170, which authorises the National Recovery Manager to require information.

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2002 No 33 ss 11A, 94I