Requirement to make emergency management plan
159A Requirement to make emergency management plan
A water corporation must make a plan that sets out how the water corporation should respond to any emergency that could affect the exercise of the water corporation's powers or the performance of the water corporation's functions.
In preparing a plan, the water corporation must have regard to any obligations in a statement of obligations issued by the Minister to the water corporation under section 4I of the Water Industry Act 1994 concerning the form of, and the information to be contained in, such a plan.
In this section and in section 159E, emergency means an emergency due to the actual or imminent occurrence of an event which in any way endangers or threatens to endanger the safety or health of any person in Victoria or which destroys or damages, or threatens to destroy or damage, any property in Victoria or endangers or threatens to endanger the environment or an element of the environment in Victoria.
S. 159B inserted by No. 17/2012 s. 29.
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