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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Administering authorities of multi-member Emergency Management Committees

37: Administering authorities

You could also call this:

"Who's in Charge of Emergency Management Committees"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

The proposed law says you will have an administering authority for each Emergency Management Committee. This authority is a regional council or unitary authority that is part of the Committee. If a Committee has both, the regional council must be in charge. If a Committee has more than one regional council or unitary authority, the members must agree on who is in charge within two months. You must choose one of the regional councils or unitary authorities to be the administering authority. If the members cannot agree, the Minister will decide who is in charge or tell some members to start their own Committee. The Minister's decision is final, and the regional councils or unitary authorities must follow their directions. You can only change the administering authority if the Minister agrees in writing.

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36: Membership rules in event of local government reorganisations, or

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

38: Functions and costs of administering authorities and chief executives of administering authorities, or

"Who does what and how much it costs in emergency groups"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Administering authorities of multi-member Emergency Management Committees

37Administering authorities

The administering authority for each multi-member Emergency Management Committee is a regional council or unitary authority that is a member of the Committee.
If a Committee has both a regional council and a unitary authority as members, the regional council must be the administering authority for that Committee.
Subsections (4) to (7) apply to a Committee that has—
2 or more regional councils as members; or
2 or more unitary authorities as members.

Within 2 months of the date on which the Committee is established, the members must reach an agreement to appoint one of the regional councils or unitary authorities as the administering authority for that Committee.
If the members fail to reach an agreement, the Minister must—
appoint one of the regional councils or unitary authorities as the administering authority; or
direct one, some, or all of the regional councils or unitary authorities to establish their own Committee.

A regional council or unitary authority that is subject to a ministerial direction under subsection (5)(b) must comply with that direction.
The members may change the administering authority for their Committee only if the Minister approves, in writing, an application from those members to change the administering authority for their Committee.

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2002 No 33 s 23