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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Emergency Management Committees

29: General powers of Emergency Management Committees

You could also call this:

"What Emergency Management Committees can do in an emergency"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If a bill to change the law is passed, an Emergency Management Committee will have the power to do what is necessary to perform its functions. You will see that this includes recruiting and training volunteers, and conducting training exercises. The Committee will also be able to provide warning systems and communications equipment. The Committee's powers will include issuing identification passes and controlling their use. You will notice that the Committee can also provide facilities for its functions during an emergency. It can perform any other function necessary to carry out an emergency management plan. To find out more about how the Committee can require information, you can look at section 170.

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Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Emergency Management Committees

29General powers of Emergency Management Committees

  1. An Emergency Management Committee has all the powers that are reasonably necessary or expedient to enable it to perform its functions, including the power to delegate any of its functions or powers to members of the Committee, the Regional Controller, the Regional Recovery Manager, or any other persons.

  2. Those powers include, without limitation, the power to—

  3. recruit and train volunteers for emergency management tasks:
    1. conduct emergency management training exercises, practices, and rehearsals:
      1. issue and control the use of signs, badges, insignia, and identification passes authorised under this Act:
        1. provide, maintain, control, and operate warning systems:
          1. provide communications, equipment, accommodation, and facilities for the performance and exercise of the Committee’s functions and powers during an emergency:
            1. perform any other function that is necessary to give effect to any emergency management plan.

              1. See section 170, which authorises an Emergency Management Committee to require information.

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              • 2002 No 33 s 18