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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods - Powers applying during transition periods - Powers exercised by authorised Recovery Managers or constables

164: Power to direct or request person to cease activity or take action

You could also call this:

"Stopping or starting actions to help in an emergency"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If you are in charge of helping during an emergency, you can tell someone to stop doing something. You can do this if what they are doing might make the emergency worse or stop people from recovering from it. You can also ask someone to do something to help prevent or limit the emergency. You can ask them to do this in person or in writing. This is something that authorised Recovery Managers or constables can do. They have the power to direct or ask people to take certain actions during an emergency.

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Part 4Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods
Powers applying during transition periods: Powers exercised by authorised Recovery Managers or constables

164Power to direct or request person to cease activity or take action

  1. An authorised Recovery Manager or a constable may—

  2. direct a person to cease an activity that may—
    1. cause, or substantially contribute to the consequences of, the applicable emergency; or
      1. prevent, or substantially hinder, recovery from the applicable emergency:
      2. request a person, verbally or in writing, to take an action to prevent or limit or reduce the consequences of the emergency.

        Compare
        • 2002 No 33 s 91
        • 1996 No 30 s 137(1)(d), (e)