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State Emergency and Rescue
Management Amendment
(Co-ordination and Notification of
Rescues) Bill 2013
No , 2013
A Bill for
An Act to amend the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 to ensure
that the NSW Police Force is responsible for the co-ordination of rescue operations
and is notified of rescue incidents.
State Emergency and Rescue Management Amendment (Co-ordination
Clause 1 and Notification of Rescues) Bill 2013
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts: 1
1 Name of Act 2
This Act is the State Emergency and Rescue Management Amendment 3
(Co-ordination and Notification of Rescues) Act 2013. 4
2 Commencement 5
This Act commences on the date of assent to this Act. 6
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State Emergency and Rescue Management Amendment (Co-ordination
and Notification of Rescues) Bill 2013
Amendment of State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 Schedule 1
No 165
Schedule 1 Amendment of State Emergency and 1
Rescue Management Act 1989 No 165 2
[1] Part 3, Division 3, heading 3
Omit "Police control". Insert instead "Co-ordination". 4
[2] Section 50 Police to co-ordinate rescue operations 5
Omit section 50 (1) and (2). Insert instead: 6
(1) The NSW Police Force is responsible for co-ordinating rescue 7
operations and for determining the priorities of action to be taken 8
in rescue operations. 9
[3] Section 50 (3) 10
Omit "some other person or" wherever occurring. Insert instead "another". 11
[4] Section 51 12
Omit the section. Insert instead: 13
51 Emergency services organisations to notify police of rescue 14
incidents 15
(1) An emergency services organisation other than the NSW Police 16
Force must, immediately after the organisation becomes aware of 17
an incident that requires or is likely to require the rescue of any 18
person, notify a member of the NSW Police Force of all relevant 19
information concerning the incident. 20
(2) This section does not apply if the organisation is aware that the 21
incident has already been notified to a member of the NSW 22
Police Force. 23
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