Constitution of Regional Emergency Management Planning Committees
54 Constitution of Regional Emergency Management Planning Committees
Each Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee consists of—
the following members—
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Department Head of each Department (other than the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Department of Treasury and Finance);
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Chief Commissioner of Police;
in the case of a region that includes a metropolitan district or part of a metropolitan district (within the meaning of the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Act 1958), a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board;
in the case of a region that includes part of the country area of Victoria (within the meaning of the Country Fire Authority Act 1958), a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Country Fire Authority;
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Secretary (within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Ambulance Services Act 1986) on behalf of Ambulance Service—Victoria;
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Society incorporated by Royal Charter under the name of Australian Red Cross Society;
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Chief Executive Officer of a municipal council of a municipal district within the relevant region;
Note 1 to s. 54(1)(a)(vii) substituted by No. 36/2018 s. 65, substituted as Note by No. 9/2022 s. 34.
Note
See sections 5(2) to 5(5) of the Alpine Resorts (Management) Act 1997 for the arrangements applying to alpine resorts.
Note 2
Nothing in this section prevents 2 or more Chief Executive Officers nominating the same person to represent their municipal councils.
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by the Victoria State Emergency Service Authority;
a person, or the person holding a position or role for the time being, nominated by Emergency Management Victoria; and
after the election of the chairperson under section 55(1), in addition to the members referred to in paragraph (a), the following members—
one or more persons, or one or more persons holding a position or role respectively for the time being, each nominated by an agency (with a role or responsibility in relation to recovery from emergencies at a regional level) in response to an invitation from the chairperson of the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee on behalf of the Committee to make a nomination;
one or more persons, or one or more persons holding a position or role respectively for the time being, each nominated by an agency in response to an invitation from the chairperson of the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee on behalf of the Committee to make a nomination.
A body or person referred to in subsection (1) nominating a representative for the purposes of that subsection must give notice in writing of the nomination to—
the chairperson of the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee; or
if the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee has no chairperson, the Emergency Management Commissioner.
As soon as practicable after the commencement of Part 4 of the Emergency Management Legislation Amendment Act 2018, there shall be a first meeting of each Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee at which the members of each Committee constituting the Committee at that time must—
elect one of their number to be chairperson of that Committee; and
select agencies to make nominations for the purposes of subsection (1)(b)(i) and (ii).
The addition of a member referred to in subsection (1)(b) to a Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee is not taken to be a reconstitution of the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee.
A Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee is not taken to be invalidly constituted only because there is a vacancy in the membership of the Committee.
A Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee must ensure that a vacancy in the membership of the Committee is filled as soon as practicable after the vacancy arises.
Subsequent to the first meeting of a Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee referred to in subsection (3), the Regional Emergency Management Planning Committee may select agencies for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) as and when the Committee determines.
New s. 55 inserted by No. 36/2018 s. 48.
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