42Role of local authority members of multi-member Emergency Management Committees

1. A local authority that is a member of a multi-member Emergency Management Committee must plan and provide for emergency management within its region or district.

2. In carrying out that obligation, the role of each local authority is to—

3. do, in relation to hazards and risks within its region or district, the following:
   1. identify and assess those hazards and risks:
   2. report to the Committee on the identification and assessment of hazards and risks:
   3. manage those hazards and risks:
   4. identify how to reduce risks and implement cost-effective risk reduction:
   5. consult and communicate with the communities within that region or district about those hazards and risks:
4. arrange for the provision of suitably trained and competent personnel, including volunteers, and an appropriate organisation structure for those personnel for effective emergency management:
5. take all steps necessary or desirable to maintain and provide, or to arrange the provision of, or otherwise to make available, material, services, information, and any other resources for effective emergency management:
6. respond to and manage the adverse effects of emergencies in its region or district:
7. in advance of an emergency, plan for recovery activities in its region or district:
8. in the event of an emergency, carry out recovery activities in its region or district:
9. when requested, assist other local authorities with emergency management in their regions or districts as appropriate (having regard to the competing emergency management demands within the authority’s own region or district and any other requests for assistance from other local authorities):
10. within its region or district, promote and raise public awareness of, and compliance with, this Act, and legislative provisions relevant to the purpose of this Act (including the relevant legislation in Schedule 2):
11. monitor and report to the Committee on compliance within its region or district with this Act and legislative provisions relevant to the purpose of this Act (including the relevant legislation in Schedule 2):
12. do, in relation to a regional emergency management plan of the Committee, the following:
    1. assist with developing and reviewing the plan:
    2. implement the relevant aspects of the plan:
13. participate in developing the national emergency management strategy and the national emergency management plan:
14. promote emergency management in its region or district that is consistent with the purpose of this Act.

15. A local authority that is a member of a multi-member Emergency Management Committee also has any other functions that are conferred or imposed on a Committee under this Act or any other enactment.

16. See section 28 for the functions of a unitary authority that is a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee.