New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 25

25 Functions of District Emergency Operations Controller

(1) The District Emergency Operations Controller for a district is, subject to this section, responsible for controlling in accordance with this Act the response to an emergency:

(a) that affects more than one local government area in the district, or

(b) for which the District Emergency Operations Controller assumes responsibility.

(1A) The District Emergency Operations Controller is not responsible for controlling the response to an emergency if there is a single combat agency primarily responsible under Displan for controlling the response to the emergency, unless the Controller assumes that responsibility in accordance with subsection (1B).

(1B) The District Emergency Operations Controller may assume responsibility for controlling the response to an emergency from the combat agency primarily so responsible under Displan if:

(a) the State Emergency Operations Controller is satisfied that it is necessary to do so in the particular circumstances of the case, and

(b) the combat agency has requested or agreed to the District Emergency Operations Controller assuming that responsibility or, in the case of any disagreement on the matter, the Minister has directed the District Emergency Operations Controller to do so.

(1C) The District Emergency Operations Controller is not responsible for controlling the response to an emergency for which the State Emergency Operations Controller has assumed responsibility.

(2) The District Emergency Operations Controller may, if responsible for controlling the response to an emergency, issue directions to agencies who have functions in connection with responses to the emergency.

(2A) The District Emergency Operations Controller may assist a combat agency that is primarily responsible for controlling the response to an emergency in carrying out that responsibility.

(3) The functions of the District Emergency Operations Controller may be exercised without the need for a declaration of a state of emergency, but during a state of emergency the exercise of those functions is subject to Division 4.

(4) The District Emergency Operations Controller is to establish and control a District emergency operations centre.

(5) The District Emergency Operations Controller is subject to the direction of the State Emergency Operations Controller.