Emergency Management Act 2013

The Emergency Management Commissioner must develop, and review from time to time, operating procedures for the planning and preparation for the response to and responding to, emergencies, including—

training, development and accreditation of incident management personnel; and

incident management facilities; and

incident management systems; and

the management of the State's primary control centre for the response to emergencies.

In developing, or reviewing, incident management operating procedures, the Emergency Management Commissioner must—

consult with the responder agencies and Emergency Management Victoria; and

have regard to any procedures of a similar kind that a responder agency has in place for the planning and preparation of the response to, and responding to, emergencies, including any joint procedures with other responder agencies.

A responder agency must cooperate with the Emergency Management Commissioner in any consultation under subsection (2)(a).

The Emergency Management Commissioner must develop or review incident management operating procedures in a manner that is reasonable.

If incident management operating procedures developed under this section are inconsistent with procedures of a similar kind that a responder agency has in place for the planning and preparation of the response to, and responding to, an emergency, including any joint procedures with other responder agencies, the incident management operating procedures prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

Incident management operating procedures in force under section 21 of the Fire Services Commissioner Act 2010 immediately before the commencement of section 77 are to be taken to have been developed under this section.