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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

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

36: Membership rules in event of local government reorganisations

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"What happens to emergency groups when local council areas change"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If there's a change to local government areas, this section applies. You need to know it affects local authorities with new regional councils or unitary authorities. It also affects areas where regional council boundaries are redrawn. If this section applies, each affected regional council must set up an Emergency Management Committee within 6 months. You will be part of a Committee if your territorial authority is in the same region as the affected regional council. If your area is in two or more regional council regions, you must join one Committee after talking to the regional councils. If you can't decide which Committee to join, the Minister will tell you which one to join. You must then follow the Minister's direction. This is a proposed change to the law, so it's not in effect yet.

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35: Mergers of Emergency Management Committees, or

"Minister can approve merging of Emergency Management Committees"

37: Administering authorities, or

"Who's in Charge of Emergency Management Committees"

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

36Membership rules in event of local government reorganisations

This section applies to local authorities affected by a local government reorganisation that—
creates new regional councils or unitary authorities; or
redraws boundaries of regions between—
1. 2 or more regional councils or unitary authorities; or
2. 2 or more of a combination of both regional councils and unitary authorities; or
extends the district of a territorial authority into the region of another regional council.

If this section applies,—
each affected regional council or unitary authority must establish or re-establish, as the case may be, an Emergency Management Committee within 6 months of the effective date of its reorganisation:
each territorial authority whose district is completely within the region or district of the affected regional council must be a member of the Committee of which that regional council is a member:
each territorial authority whose district is in the region of 2 or more affected regional councils must, after consulting the relevant regional councils, join 1 Committee that has at least 1 of those regional councils as a member:
each territorial authority whose district is extended into the region of another regional council must, after consulting the relevant regional councils, join 1 Committee that has at least 1 of those regional councils as a member.

A territorial authority's decision to join a particular Committee under subsection (2)(c) or (d) is irrevocable, and must be made within 2 months of the establishment of the Committee.
If a territorial authority's decision under subsection (2)(c) or (d) is not made before the expiry of the time limit in subsection (3), the Minister must direct the territorial authority to join one of the relevant Committees.
A territorial authority that is subject to a ministerial direction under subsection (4) must comply with that direction.

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2002 No 33 s 22