2014-01-13 Item 6.3 Appendices 1-5

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Local Government (De-amalgamation Implementation) Regulation 2013
Part 5A Disaster management matters
[s 51B]
             (a)  appoint, under section 24 of that Act, a person to be a
                  member of a district group;
             (b)  establish, under section 29 of that Act, a Local Disaster
                  Management Group;
             (c)  appoint, under section 33 of that Act, persons to be
                   members of a Local Disaster Management Group;
             (d)   appoint, under section 34 of that Act, persons to be the
                   chairperson and deputy chairperson of a Local Disaster
                  Management Group;
             (e)   prepare, under section 57 of that Act, and approve,
                   under section 80 of that Act, a plan for disaster
                   management in a new local government’s area;
             (f)   nominate, under section 85(2) of that Act, a member of
                   an SES unit to be the local controller of the unit.
        (4)  For subsection (3)(c) and (d), a person elected to be a
             councillor of a new local government is taken to be a
             councillor of the new local government.

51B     Appointment of local disaster coordinator
        (1)  Before the changeover day, the person appointed under
             section 51A(3)(d) as the chairperson of a Local Disaster
             Management     Group   must   appoint,  under  the  Disaster
             Management Act 2003, section 35 (the appointment section),
             a person as a local disaster coordinator of the group.
        (2)  For subsection (1)—
             (a)   a reference in the appointment section to the chief
                   executive officer of a local government is taken to be a
                   reference to a transfer manager; and
             (b)   areference in the appointment section to an employee of
                   a local government is taken to be a reference to a person
                   who will be an employee of a new local government.

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