New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE EMERGENCY AND RESCUE MANAGEMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 48A

48A District and local rescue committees

(1) Rescue committees are to be established for each district and for each local government area.

(2) The rescue committee for a district is to be chaired by the District Emergency Operations Controller for the district and is to comprise senior representatives of emergency services organisations operating in the district nominated by those organisations.

(3) The rescue committee for a local government area is to be chaired by the Local Emergency Operations Controller for the area and is to comprise senior representatives of emergency services organisations operating in the area nominated by those organisations.

(4) Rescue committees are to assist the State Rescue Board in the exercise of its functions within the district or local government area concerned. In particular, a rescue committee is to assist the State Rescue Board in determining whether the accreditation of a rescue unit to operate in the district or area should be recommended to the Minister.

(5) Rescue committees are subject to the control and direction of the State Rescue Board.

(6) The State Rescue Board may approve of a single rescue committee for 2 or more local government areas. In that case, a reference in this section:

(a) to a local government area is a reference to the combined local government areas concerned, and

(b) to the Local Emergency Operations Controller for the area is a reference to the principal Controller designated in the approval.