New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 14

14 State Emergency Management Committee

(1) There is established by this Act a State Emergency Management Committee.

(2) The Committee is to consist of:

(a) the State Emergency Operations Controller, and

(b) representatives of such relevant government and non-government agencies as the Minister may from time to time determine.

(2A) One of the appointed members is, by the instrument of the member’s appointment as a member or by a subsequent instrument executed by the Minister, to be appointed as the Chairperson of the Committee.

(3) The representative of a government agency is to be nominated by the Minister responsible for the agency and the representative of a non-government agency is to be nominated by the State Disasters Council.

(4) The persons so nominated are to be persons who have authority to plan and commit their agencies’ resources in relation to the response and recovery stages of an emergency.

(5) Schedule 2 has effect with respect to the members and procedure of the State Emergency Management Committee.