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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Appointment of Regional Controllers, District Controllers, and Local Controllers

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

You could also call this:

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

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If a multi-member Emergency Management Committee is set up, you will have a Regional Controller. This person will be in charge of the Committee's area. The Committee must choose someone who is qualified and experienced for this role. The Committee must also choose at least one other person to act as Regional Controller if the main one is away or cannot do the job. This person will take over the role until the main Regional Controller can come back to work. The Committee may give some of its representatives the power to remove and replace the Regional Controller during a state of emergency. This power can only be given to representatives who are allowed to declare a state of emergency in the area. When the Committee gives this power to its representatives, it can also add conditions or limitations on how the power is used. For example, the Committee might say that the representatives can only use this power in certain situations, as stated in section 55(4) and section 49(1)(a).

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Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Appointment of Regional Controllers, District Controllers, and Local Controllers

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

  1. This section provides for the appointment of the Regional Controller, and persons who may act in the role of the Regional Controller when needed, for a multi-member Emergency Management Committee.

  2. A multi-member Emergency Management Committee must appoint—

  3. a suitably qualified and experienced person to be the Regional Controller for its area; and
    1. at least 1 suitably qualified and experienced person to act in the role of the Regional Controller for the duration of any vacancy in the office or absence from duty of the Regional Controller.

      1. The Committee may delegate the authority under section 55(4) to remove and replace the Regional Controller during a state of emergency in the Committee’s area with a person appointed under subsection (2)(b).

      2. A delegation under subsection (3)—

      3. must be to 1 or more of the representatives who are authorised under section 49(1)(a) to declare a state of emergency for the whole of that Committee’s area; and
        1. may impose conditions or limitations on the use of the authority delegated under paragraph (a).

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          • 2002 No 33 s 26