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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

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

50: Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations: individual districts and wards within districts

You could also call this:

"Who can declare a local emergency in a district or ward"

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You can be the mayor of a territorial authority or an elected member acting on the mayor's behalf. You may declare a state of local emergency in your district or in one or more wards. You have this power if the mayor is absent. You can cover the whole district or just some wards. The Emergency Management Committee can also help make this decision. They can act if the mayor or elected member has not made a declaration. If an emergency happens or might happen, a representative from the Committee can make a declaration. This person can act on behalf of the Committee or the unitary authority. They can declare a state of local emergency if needed.

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

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

51: Appointment of Regional Controllers for multi-member Emergency Management Committees, or

"Who gets to be in charge of a Regional Emergency Management team?"

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

50Persons authorised to make local emergency declarations: individual districts and wards within districts

Subsection (2) applies to the mayor of a territorial authority, or an elected member of the territorial authority who is designated to act on behalf of the mayor if the mayor is absent.
The mayor or designated elected member may declare a state of local emergency or a local transition period that covers either of the following:
the district of the territorial authority:
1 or more wards within that district.

If at any time it appears to the Emergency Management Committee of the relevant district that an emergency has occurred or may occur and the power in subsection (2) has not been exercised, a representative of a member of the Committee (or a representative of the unitary authority in the case of a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee) for that area or district may exercise the power.