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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Local authorities

44: Role of chief executives of territorial authorities to co-ordinate use of resources

You could also call this:

"Local council bosses help manage resources during emergencies"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If you are a chief executive of a local authority, you have a role to play. You must co-ordinate the use of resources like personnel and material for emergency management. This means you are in charge of making sure everything runs smoothly. You can delegate this role to someone else if you want to. This means you can ask someone to do the job for you. You can choose anyone, even if they do not work for your local authority. Even if you delegate the role, you are still responsible for what happens. This means you are still in charge and have to answer for what is done. You have to make sure everything is done correctly and according to the law.

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Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Local authorities

44Role of chief executives of territorial authorities to co-ordinate use of resources

  1. Subsection (2) applies—

  2. to each local authority (including a unitary authority), other than a regional council:
    1. when no state of emergency or transition period is in force for the local authority’s district.

      1. The chief executive of a local authority must co-ordinate the use of the personnel, material, information, and other resources made available for the purposes of this Act.

      2. A chief executive may delegate the role in subsection (2) to any person, regardless of whether they are an employee of the relevant local authority.

      3. A chief executive who delegates the role in subsection (2) remains responsible and accountable under this Act for the performance of the role.