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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods - Declaring states of emergency - Declaring state of local emergency

115: State of local emergency may be concurrent with national emergency declarations

You could also call this:

"A local emergency can happen at the same time as a national emergency."

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

You can have a state of local emergency at the same time as a national emergency declaration. This means that if there is a big emergency somewhere else, it does not stop a local emergency from being declared. You can find more information about this in sections 113 and 114. If a national emergency is declared under section 109, or a national transition period is declared under section 142, it does not affect the local emergency. However, if a national emergency or transition period is already happening, then section 59 applies. This is important to know when there are two emergencies at the same time. A local emergency keeps going even if a national emergency or transition period is declared later for a different emergency. This is true even if both emergencies happen in the same place. You can still have a local emergency in that area.

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Part 4Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods
Declaring states of emergency: Declaring state of local emergency

115State of local emergency may be concurrent with national emergency declarations

  1. Sections 113 and 114 apply whether or not—

  2. a state of national emergency is declared under section 109 in respect of another emergency; or
    1. a national transition period is declared under section 142 in respect of another emergency.

      1. However, if a state of national emergency or a national transition period is in force, section 59 applies.

      2. A state of local emergency remains in force if a state of national emergency or a national transition period is subsequently declared in respect of another emergency, even if both emergencies affect the same location.