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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system planning - National emergency management strategy

77: National emergency management strategy

You could also call this:

"A plan to help New Zealand prepare for and deal with emergencies"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

The Minister will make a plan called a national emergency management strategy. You will see this plan used for things like setting emergency management goals for New Zealand. It will also outline what the country wants to achieve and how it will measure progress. The Minister's plan will include things like what the government wants to do about emergency management. You will see it list the specific things the country wants to achieve in emergency management. It will also say how the country will measure whether it is meeting its emergency management goals. The plan will start 28 days after it is made public, or on a later date if that is specified in the plan.

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Part 3Emergency management system planning
National emergency management strategy

77National emergency management strategy

  1. The Minister must make a national emergency management strategy for 1 or more of the following purposes:

  2. providing for the Crown’s goals in relation to emergency management in New Zealand:
    1. identifying the objectives to be pursued to achieve those goals:
      1. specifying the measurable targets to be met to achieve those objectives.

        1. A national emergency management strategy made under this section takes effect 28 days after the strategy is published or on a later date (if any) specified in the strategy.

        Compare
        • 2002 No 33 s 31