South Australian Consolidated Acts

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2004 - SECT 6

6—Establishment of State Emergency Management Committee

        (1)         The State Emergency Management Committee (SEMC) is established.

        (2)         SEMC consists of the following members:

            (a)         the presiding member, being the person for the time being holding or acting in the position of chief executive of the administrative unit that has, subject to the Minister, responsibility for administering this Act;

            (b)         the State Co-ordinator;

            (c)         the Chief Officer of the South Australian Country Fire Service;

            (d)         the Chief Officer of the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service;

            (e)         the Chief Officer of the South Australian State Emergency Service;

            (f)         not more than 14 persons appointed by the Governor of whom—

                  (i)         not more than 11 are to be appointed on the nomination of the Minister; and

                  (ii)         one is to be appointed on the nomination of the Minister, being selected from a panel of three persons submitted by the Commissioner of Police; and

                  (iii)         one is to be appointed on the nomination of the Minister, being selected from a panel of three persons submitted by the governing body of the S.A. St. John Ambulance Service Inc.; and

                  (iv)         one is to be appointed on the nomination of the Minister, being selected from a panel of three persons submitted by the Local Government Association of South Australia.

        (3)         The Minister may, by notice in writing, request a person or body referred to in subsection (2)(f) to submit, within a time specified in the notice (which must be reasonable), a panel of names for the purposes of that subsection.

        (4)         Where a person or body fails to comply with a request under subsection (3) within the specified time, the Minister may select a person for appointment as a member of SEMC, and a person so selected may then be appointed to SEMC as if his or her name had been duly submitted by the person or body to whom the notice was addressed.

        (5)         A person or body referred to in subsection (2)(f) must, in constituting a panel for the purposes of that subsection, submit the name of at least one man and one woman.

        (6)         The Governor may appoint a suitable person to be the deputy of a member of SEMC (including an ex officio member of SEMC) and that person may, in the absence of that member, act as a member of SEMC.