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Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

Chapter 5 : Municipal Disaster Management

Part 2 : Municipal disaster management centres

43. Establishment

 

(1) Each metropolitan and each district municipality must establish in its administration a disaster management centre for its municipal area.

 

(2) A district municipality—
(a) must establish its disaster management centre after consultation with the local municipalities within area; and
(b) may operate such centre in partnership with those local municipalities.

 

(3) A local municipality must establish capacity for the development and co-ordination of a disaster management plan and the implementation of a disaster management function for the municipality which forms part of the disaster management plan as approved by the relevant municipal disaster management centre.

[Subsection (3) inserted by section 16 of Act No. 16 of 2015]

 

(4) A local municipality may establish a disaster management centre in consultation with the relevant district municipality in accordance with the terms set out in a service level agreement between the two parties, in alignment with national norms and standards.

[Subsection (4) inserted by section 16 of Act No. 16 of 2015]