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Hazard management agency — Commissioner of Police

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16 Hazard management agency — Commissioner of Police

(1)

The Commissioner of Police is the hazard management agency for emergency management of the following hazards for the whole of the State —

(a)

air crash;

(b)

road crash;

(c)

persons lost or in distress on land, requiring significant coordination of search operations;

[(d) deleted.]

(e)

radiation escape from nuclear powered warship;

(f)

space re‑entry debris;

(g)

a terrorist act as defined in The Criminal Code section 100.1 set out in the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act 1995 of the Commonwealth;

(h)

hostile act.

(2)

The Commissioner of Police is the hazard management agency for emergency management of the hazard set out in regulation 15(b) —

(a)

for emergency management; and

(b)

for the following area or areas —

(i)

State waters;

(ii)

the area of a port as defined in the Shipping and Pilotage Act 1967 section 3;

(iii)

the area described in relation to a port by order made by the Governor under the Port Authorities Act 1999 section 24.

[Regulation 16 inserted: Gazette 12 Jan 2007 p. 51‑2; amended: Gazette 13 Jan 2009 p. 56; 29 Jan 2013 p. 330; SL 2020/24 r. 8.]

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