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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations

49: Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations: whole area, multiple districts, or multiple wards from within different districts

You could also call this:

"Who can declare a local emergency in your area?"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If a big emergency happens, you need to know who can declare a state of emergency. The Emergency Management Committee must choose at least one person to declare a state of local emergency and one person to declare a local transition period. They can choose these people to cover the whole area, some districts, or some wards. You can have one person or many people making these declarations. The Committee must make sure at least one person can make a declaration for the whole area. They must choose these people from their own representatives. When they choose these people, they must say if they have equal power to make declarations or if one person can only act if another person is not available. They must also say if there are any other conditions or limitations. If the chosen people cannot make a declaration, any representative of the Committee can do it instead.

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Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations

49Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations: whole area, multiple districts, or multiple wards from within different districts

  1. An Emergency Management Committee must appoint—

  2. at least 1 person as a person authorised to declare a state of local emergency; and
    1. at least 1 person as a person authorised to declare a local transition period.

      1. An appointed person may be authorised to make a declaration that covers 1 or more of the following:

      2. the whole of the Emergency Management Committee’s area:
        1. 2 or more districts within the area:
          1. 2 or more wards within the area if those wards are from within more than 1 district.

            1. The Committee must ensure that at least 1 person is appointed to make a declaration in relation to the whole area.

            2. An appointed person must be chosen from the representatives of the members of the Committee (or from the representatives of the unitary authority in the case of a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee).

            3. The instrument of appointment must state—

            4. whether the appointed persons have equal status to make an emergency declaration, or whether any of the appointed persons is authorised to act only in the absence of another named person; and
              1. any other conditions or limitations.

                1. If no appointed person is, or is likely to be, able to exercise the power in subsection (1)(a) or (b), any representative of the members of the Committee may exercise the power.

                Compare
                • 2002 No 33 s 25