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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system role-holders - Regional role-holders - Role of Regional Recovery Managers, District Recovery Managers, and Local Recovery Managers

66: Role of District Recovery Managers

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"What District Recovery Managers Do to Help Their Community"

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If you are a District Recovery Manager, you will be appointed to help with a territorial authority's district. You will need to co-ordinate the use of resources during a transition period in your district. You must follow any directions given by the Regional Recovery Manager. You will have to do tasks given to you by the Emergency Management Committee or by this Act. You can also do tasks that you are allowed to do under this Act. You can let someone else do your tasks if they are qualified and experienced. If the Regional Recovery Manager gives you a direction, you must follow it. This direction is more important than any other tasks you have to do. If you let someone else do your tasks, you are still responsible for making sure they are done correctly.

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65: Role of Regional Recovery Managers, or

"Who are Regional Recovery Managers and what do they do to help after an emergency?"

67: Role of Local Recovery Managers, or

"What Local Recovery Managers Do"

Part 2Emergency management system role-holders
Regional role-holders: Role of Regional Recovery Managers, District Recovery Managers, and Local Recovery Managers

66Role of District Recovery Managers

This section applies to District Recovery Managers appointed under section 61 in relation to a territorial authority’s district.
During a transition period that covers the district for which a District Recovery Manager is appointed, the District Recovery Manager must co-ordinate the use of the personnel, material, information, and other resources made available for the purposes of this Act.
At any time, the District Recovery Manager—
must also perform or exercise any functions, duties, or powers delegated to the District Recovery Manager by the Emergency Management Committee or conferred on the District Recovery Manager by this Act or any other enactment; and
may perform any function conferred on the District Recovery Manager by delegation under this Act; and
may authorise any suitably qualified and experienced person to perform or exercise any function, duty, or power of that District Recovery Manager, except the power to delegate those functions, duties, and powers.

A District Recovery Manager must follow any directions given by the Regional Recovery Manager during a transition period.
Subsection (4) overrides subsection (3)(a).
A District Recovery Manager who authorises a person under subsection (3)(c) to perform or exercise a function, duty, or power remains responsible and accountable under this Act for the performance or exercise of the function, duty, or power.

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2002 No 33 ss 30, 30A