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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Emergency Management Committees

24: Members of Emergency Management Committees

You could also call this:

"Who is on an Emergency Management Committee?"

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The proposed law says each local authority must be part of an Emergency Management Committee. You can find out more about unitary authority Emergency Management Committees in section 25(5). A Committee can have more than one regional council as a member if a merger is approved under section 35. If local government areas change, a territorial authority's district might be within one or more regional councils' areas. In this case, the territorial authority must join the Committee that the regional council is part of, as described in section 36(1) and section 36. The Minister does not have to be part of a Committee, according to the proposed law. Unitary authorities that share a border can be part of the same Committee. This is part of the proposed Emergency Management Bill (No 2). The proposed law also says what happens if a territorial authority's district is within one or more regional councils' areas.

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23: Emergency Management Committees, or

"Groups that help in emergencies will keep working and follow special rules."

25: Multi-member and unitary authority Emergency Management Committees, or

"Two types of emergency committees: multi-member and unitary authority committees"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Emergency Management Committees

24Members of Emergency Management Committees

Each local authority must be a member of an Emergency Management Committee, unless it is a unitary authority that is a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee (see section 25(5)).
No Committee (other than a Committee to which subsection (3) applies) may have more than 1 regional council as a member unless a merger has been approved under section 35.
Unitary authorities that border one another may be members of the same Committee.
If, as a result of a local government reorganisation described in section 36(1),—
a territorial authority’s district is completely within the region of a regional council, the territorial authority must be a member of the Committee of which the regional council is a member:
a territorial authority’s district is within the region of more than 1 regional council (see section 36), the territorial authority must be a member of one of the Committees of which one of those regional councils is a member.

Despite section 22 of the Local Government Act 2002, the Minister (within the meaning of section 5(1) of that Act) is not required to be a member of a Committee.

Compare

2002 No 33 ss 13(1)–(3), 14