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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency management system planning - Emergency management plans: duties relevant to making of national plan and regional plans

81: Minister or Committee must consider alternatives, benefits and costs, and appropriateness before recommending plan or approving provisions

You could also call this:

"Minister or Committee must think about alternatives and choose the best plan."

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If you are the Minister and you want to recommend a national emergency management plan under section 82, you must think about some things first. You must consider if there are other ways to achieve the purpose of this Act. You must also think about the good and bad things about your proposal and other options. You need to be sure your plan is the best way to achieve the purpose of this Act. If you are an Emergency Management Committee and you want to approve parts of a regional emergency management plan under section 90, you must do the same. You must think about if your plan is necessary and if it is the best way to achieve the purpose of this Act. You must consider the benefits and costs of your plan and other options. You must be satisfied that your plan is the most appropriate way to achieve the purpose of this Act. You must think about how efficient and effective your plan is compared to other options. You must have good reasons for choosing your plan.

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Emergency management plans: duties relevant to making of national plan and regional plans

81Minister or Committee must consider alternatives, benefits and costs, and appropriateness before recommending plan or approving provisions

  1. This section applies to the Minister if the Minister intends to recommend the making of regulations providing for a national emergency management plan under section 82.

  2. This section also applies to an Emergency Management Committee if the Committee intends to approve provisions of a regional emergency management plan under section 90 that impose requirements on a person other than the following:

  3. the Committee:
    1. a local authority who is a member of the Committee (or the unitary authority in the case of a unitary authority Emergency Management Committee):
      1. emergency services (or their employees or agents).

        1. The Minister or Committee must, before recommending or approving provisions,—

        2. have regard to—
          1. the extent, if any, to which the provisions or regulations are necessary to achieve the purpose of this Act; and
            1. other means in addition to or in place of the provisions or regulations that, under this Act or any other legislation, may be used in achieving the purpose of this Act, including providing information, services, or incentives; and
              1. the reasons for and against recommending or approving the proposed provisions or regulations and the principal alternative means available, or of taking no action if this Act does not require otherwise; and
              2. evaluate the likely benefits and costs of the principal alternative means; and
                1. be satisfied that the provisions or regulations—
                  1. are necessary to achieve the purpose of this Act; and
                    1. are the most appropriate means to achieve that purpose, having regard to their efficiency and effectiveness relative to other means.