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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Role of Regional Controllers, District Controllers, and Local Controllers

56: Role of Regional Controllers

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"What Regional Controllers Do During an Emergency"

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You will have a Regional Controller for your Emergency Management Committee area during a state of emergency. The Regional Controller must direct and co-ordinate the use of resources for the Committee’s area. They must also perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers given to them by the Committee or by law. You need to know the Regional Controller can authorise someone to perform their functions, but they remain responsible. The Regional Controller must use resources for the purposes of the Emergency Management Act. They can also use resources for a state of local emergency when there is a state of national emergency at the same time, as stated in section 15(2)(b). The Regional Controller has important jobs to do during a state of emergency. They must work with government agencies and other people to help their area. They are in charge of making sure everything runs smoothly.

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55: Provisions applying generally to appointments and removals of Regional Controllers, District Controllers, and Local Controllers, or

"Rules for Appointing and Removing Emergency Controllers"

57: Role of District Controllers, or

"What District Controllers do during an emergency"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Role of Regional Controllers, District Controllers, and Local Controllers

56Role of Regional Controllers

Subclause (2) applies to a Regional Controller for an Emergency Management Committee during a state of emergency in the Committee’s area.
The Regional Controller must direct and co-ordinate the use of the personnel, material, information, services, and other resources made available for the Committee’s area by government agencies, Emergency Management Committees, and other persons for the purposes of this Act.
At any time, the Regional Controller—
must perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers delegated to the Regional Controller by the Committee or conferred on Regional Controllers by this Act or any other enactment; and
may perform any function conferred on the Regional Controller by delegation under this Act; and
may authorise any suitably qualified and experienced person to perform or exercise any function, duty, or power of that Regional Controller, including the power to delegate those powers, functions, and duties.

A Regional Controller who authorises a person under subsection (2)(c) to perform or exercise a function, duty, or power remains responsible and accountable under this Act for the performance or exercise of the function, duty, or power.
See also the Director-General’s power under section 15(2)(b), which includes using specified resources for the purposes of any state of local emergency when the state of national emergency or national transition period is in force concurrently for the same ward, district, or area.

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