Part 3Rules
Emergency rules made by Director: Power of Director to make emergency rules
67Power of Director to make emergency rules
Subject to subsection (2), the Director may, in accordance with section 69, make any emergency rules that the Director considers may be necessary to alleviate or minimise any risk of the death of or a serious injury to any person, or of damage to any property.
The Director must not make emergency rules unless it is impracticable in the circumstances of the particular case for the Minister to make rules to effectively alleviate or minimise the risk concerned.
The Minister may revoke any emergency rule made under subsection (1), and the revocation must be notified as if it were an emergency rule.
The following are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements):
- emergency rules under subsection (1):
- a revocation under subsection (3).
If, under the Legislation Act 2019, an emergency rule or a revocation is not required to be published, the Director must serve a copy of it on the persons (if any) whom the Director considers appropriate.
If subsection (5) applies to an emergency rule or revocation,—
- it has effect only in relation to a person on whom it is served under subsection (5); and
- it comes into force in relation to the person immediately after it is served on the person (even though it is not published).
Service under subsection (5) may be effected in any way the Director considers appropriate.
Compare
- 1990 No 98 s 31(1)–(3)