Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsIn this Act--
"approved form" see section 37.
"authorised person" means a person authorised to act by the chairperson or by a disaster district coordinator.
"boat" means any type of ship or other vessel used in navigation by water or for another purpose on water, and includes a ship or other vessel of whatever size and however it is propelled or moved.
"body" means a body corporate or unincorporate and includes a government department, instrumentality or agency, public authority or local government.
"chairperson" means the chairperson of the central control group established under this Act.
"combined local governments" means local governments that have united with one another for counterdisaster purposes.
"counterdisaster" means the planning, organisation, coordination or implementation of measures that are necessary or desirable to prevent, minimise or overcome the effects of a disaster upon members of the public or any property in the State, and includes the conduct of or participation in training for those purposes, and also civil defence measures necessary to combat the effects of enemy attack or hostilities.
"director" means an officer of the department nominated by the chief executive as the executive director (counterdisaster services).
"disaster" see section 6A.
"disaster district" means a portion of the State declared to be a disaster district under this Act.
"disaster district coordinator" means a disaster district coordinator appointed under this Act.
"emergency related function" see section 14(3).
"local controller" means the controller of a local emergency service appointed under this Act.
"local emergency service" means an emergency service established and maintained under this Act by a local government within its area or by combined local governments within their combined areas.
"organisation" means the State counterdisaster organisation constituted under this Act.
"region" means any part of a disaster district or any disaster district or any 2 or more disaster districts declared to be a region under this Act.
"resources" includes food, manpower, any horse or other animal, vehicle, aircraft, plant, apparatus, implement, earthmoving equipment, construction equipment or other equipment of any kind or any means of supplying a want or need.
"SES" means the State Emergency Service.
"SES member" means a person in the SES.
"SES vehicle" means a vehicle of the SES.
"statutory service" means a body that is constituted by or under an Act of the State or of the Commonwealth and whose role usually includes counterdisaster operations.
"vehicle" includes a boat.