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South Australia
Emergency Management (Australian Sign Language
Interpreter) Amendment Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Emergency
Management Act 2004
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Emergency
Management Act 2004
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Emergency Management (Australian Sign
Language Interpreter) Amendment Act 2015.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Emergency Management
Act 2004
Section 9(1)—after paragraph (g) insert:
(ga) to ensure that the State Emergency Management Plan provides that, for
the benefit of the South Australian deaf community, during a television
broadcast of public information and warnings made under the State Emergency
Management Plan, an accredited Australian Sign Language Interpreter must be
present to interpret the verbal content of the information and
warnings;
SEMC must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the commencement of the
Emergency
Management (Australian Sign Language Interpreter) Amendment
Act 2015
, amend the State Emergency Management Plan to provide that, for the
benefit of the South Australian deaf community, during a television broadcast of
public information and warnings made under the State Emergency Management Plan,
an accredited Australian Sign Language interpreter must be present to interpret
the verbal content of the information and warnings.