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

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Disaster Management Volunteer Regulations, 2010

2. Establishment or disestablishment of unit of volunteers

 

 

(1) Pursuant to section 58(1) of the Act a municipality may establish a unit of volunteers to participate in disaster management in the municipality.

 

(2) The head of the centre must inform the National Centre of the establishment of a unit of volunteers within 21 days of the effective date of such establishment.

 

(3)

(a) If the need for a unit of volunteers ceases to exist, the head of the centre must inform the relevant municipality accordingly and recommend to it that that unit be disestablished.
(b) On receipt of recommendations to that effect in terms of paragraph (a), the municipality may disestablish the unit of volunteers established by it.

 

(4) The head of the centre must inform the National Centre of the disestablishment of a unit of volunteers within 21 days of the effective date of such disestablishment.

 

(5) The records of a disestablished unit of volunteers must be dealt with in accordance with the archive procedures of the municipality.