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Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods - Declaring states of emergency - Commencement, duration, extension, and termination

118: Further provisions relating to extending state of emergency

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"What happens when a state of emergency is extended"

Illustration for Emergency Management Bill (No 2)

If a state of emergency is extended, it starts right before it would have ended under section 116(1)(b) or before the previous extension would have ended. You need to know when the extension starts to figure out when it ends. The extension ends 7 days after it starts. If a state of emergency was previously extended under section 117, the new extension starts before the previous one ends. The state of emergency can be extended many times. This does not stop the state of emergency from being terminated under section 119. You can extend a state of emergency as many times as needed. The rules about extending a state of emergency do not affect terminating it under section 119. The extension of a state of emergency is for a set time, which is 7 days.

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Part 4Emergency response and recovery: states of emergency and transition periods
Declaring states of emergency: Commencement, duration, extension, and termination

118Further provisions relating to extending state of emergency

  1. An extension of the duration of a state of emergency starts—

  2. immediately before the state of emergency would have ended under section 116(1)(b); or
    1. if the state of emergency was previously extended under section 117, immediately before that extension would have ended under subsection (2).

      1. An extension of the duration of a state of emergency expires at the time and on the date that is 7 days after the extension to the state of emergency starts.

      2. The duration of a state of emergency may be extended any number of times.

      3. Nothing in this section or in section 117 prevents the termination of a state of emergency under section 119.