Queensland Numbered Acts

DISASTER READINESS AMENDMENT ACT 2011 No. 33 - SECT 14

After section 72—

insert—

'(1) This section applies for a disaster situation declared under section 69 if the Minister and the Premier are satisfied—

(a) the disaster situation should be extended or further extended; and

(b) it is not practicable to make a regulation under section 72 before the day the disaster situation ends.

'(2) The Minister and the Premier may, by declaration, extend the period of the disaster situation.

'(3) The declaration must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) state—

(i) the time and date of the declaration; and

(ii) the period, of not more than 7 days, by which the disaster situation is extended.

'(4) As soon as practicable after the extension is declared, the Minister and Premier must give notice of the declaration by gazette notice.

'(5) The gazette notice must include the time and date of the declaration.

'(6) A declaration under this section—

(a) may be made more than once for a particular disaster situation; but

(b) can not be made consecutively to extend and further extend the disaster situation.'.