STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 31
Functions of Local Emergency Operations Controller
STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 31
Functions of Local Emergency Operations Controller
(1) The Local Emergency Operations Controller for an area is, subject to this
section, responsible for controlling in accordance with this Act the response
to an emergency that affects only that area.
(1A) The Local
Emergency Operations Controller is not responsible for controlling the
response to an emergency if there is a single combat agency primarily
responsible under the State Emergency Management Plan for controlling the
response to the emergency, unless the Controller assumes that responsibility
in accordance with subsection (1B).
(1B) The Local Emergency Operations
Controller may assume responsibility for controlling the response to an
emergency from the combat agency primarily so responsible under the
State Emergency Management Plan 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 Local Emergency Operations Controller assuming that
responsibility.
(1C) The Local Emergency Operations Controller is not
responsible for controlling the response to an emergency for which the State
or Regional Emergency Operations Controller has assumed responsibility.
(2)
The Local 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 Local
Emergency Operations Controller may, at the request of the combat agency that
is primarily responsible for controlling the response to an emergency, carry
out such functions as may be specified by the agency for the purposes of
controlling the response to the emergency.
(3) The functions of the Local
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 Local
Emergency Operations Controller is to establish and control a local
emergency operations centre.
(5) The Local Emergency Operations Controller is
subject to the direction of the relevant Regional Emergency Operations
Controller.