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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

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

65: Role of Regional Recovery Managers

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"Who are Regional Recovery Managers and what do they do to help after an emergency?"

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You will have a Regional Recovery Manager to help with emergencies in your area. They will make sure people and resources are used to help with recovery. They will work with government agencies and other groups to get this done. You can think of the Regional Recovery Manager as someone who makes sure everything runs smoothly. They have to do what the Emergency Management Committee tells them to do. They can also give jobs to other people to help with the recovery. If the Regional Recovery Manager gives someone else a job to do, they are still responsible for making sure it gets done. You can read more about what the Director-General can do to help with emergencies in your area. The Regional Recovery Manager has a lot of jobs to do, and they have to work with many people to get them done.

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64: Provisions applying generally to appointments of Regional Recovery Managers, District Recovery Managers, and Local Recovery Managers, or

"Rules for being a Recovery Manager in an emergency"

66: Role of District Recovery Managers, or

"What District Recovery Managers Do to Help Their Community"

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

65Role of Regional Recovery Managers

Subclause (2) applies to a Regional Recovery Manager for an Emergency Management Committee during a transition period in the Committee’s area.
The Regional Recovery Manager 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 purpose of carrying out recovery activities.
At any time, the Regional Recovery Manager—
must perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers delegated to the Regional Recovery Manager by the Committee or conferred on Regional Recovery Managers by this Act or any other enactment; and
may perform any function conferred on the Regional Recovery Manager by delegation under this Act; and
may authorise any suitably qualified and experienced person to perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers of that Regional Recovery Manager, except the power to authorise another person to perform or exercise those functions, duties, and powers.

A Regional Recovery Manager who authorises a person under subsection (3)(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 local transition period 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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