New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 12

12 State Disaster Plan

(1) There is to be a State Disaster Plan, to be called Displan.

(2) The object of Displan is to ensure the co-ordinated response to emergencies by all agencies having responsibilities and functions in emergencies.

(3) Displan is to:

(a) identify, in relation to each different form of emergency, the combat agency primarily responsible for controlling the response to the emergency, and

(b) provide for the co-ordination of the activities of other agencies in support of a combat agency in the event of an emergency, and

(c) specify the tasks to be performed by all agencies in the event of an emergency, and

(d) specify the responsibilities of the Minister, the State, District or Local Emergency Operations Controller and the State Emergency Recovery Controller.

(4) As soon as practicable after Displan is prepared or altered following a review, the Minister must:

(a) publish (in such manner as the Minister determines) a copy of Displan or the alterations to Displan, and

(b) forward a copy of Displan or the alterations to Displan to each agency to which Displan relates.