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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Other parties - Essential infrastructure providers

74: Duties of essential infrastructure providers

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"Keeping essential services running during emergencies"

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If you are an essential infrastructure provider, you must make sure the infrastructure you are responsible for works as well as it can during and after an emergency. You have to develop and maintain a plan to do this. You must also give this plan to the Director-General if they ask for it. You may be asked to help develop sector response plans. You must participate in developing the national emergency management strategy and emergency management plans. You have to give technical advice to the Director-General or any Emergency Management Committee if they need it. You must keep any information you get for the purposes of this Act private and only use it for the purposes of this Act.

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Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Other parties: Essential infrastructure providers

74Duties of essential infrastructure providers

  1. An essential infrastructure provider must—

  2. ensure that the essential infrastructure that it is responsible for providing is able to function to the fullest possible extent, even though this may be at a reduced level, during and after an emergency:
    1. develop and maintain a plan to carry out the duty described in paragraph (a):
      1. make available to the Director-General in writing, on request, the plan described in paragraph (b):
        1. contribute to developing sector response plans if required to do so by the Director-General:
          1. participate in the development of the national emergency management strategy and emergency management plans:
            1. provide, free of charge, any technical advice to the Director-General or any Emergency Management Committee that is reasonably required by the Director-General or that Committee:
              1. ensure, so far as possible, that any information that is disclosed to the entity for the purposes of this Act is used by the entity, or disclosed to another person, only for the purposes of this Act.

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                • 2002 No 33 s 60