Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A public
authority, or other person, may be prescribed by the regulations to be a
hazard management agency for emergency management, or an emergency management
aspect prescribed by the regulations, of a hazard prescribed by the
regulations.
(2) The regulations
may prescribe the whole of the State, or an area of the State, as the area for
which the public authority or person is a hazard management agency.
(3) A hazard
management agency prescribed under subsection (1) is to be a public authority
or other person who or which, because of that agency’s functions under
any written law or specialised knowledge, expertise and resources, is
responsible for emergency management, or the prescribed emergency management
aspect, in the area prescribed of the hazard for which it is prescribed.
(4) If the hazard
management agency is not an individual or a body corporate, the regulations
are to designate —
(a) one
or more persons who are authorised to act in the name of the hazard management
agency for the purposes of sections 50 and 53; and
(b) one
or more persons who are authorised to act in the name of the hazard management
agency for the purposes of authorising under section 55 persons to act as
hazard management officers.
(5) In sections 50, 53
and 55 a reference to a hazard management agency is to be taken to include a
reference to a person who is designated to act in the name of a hazard
management agency under subsection (4) for the purposes of that section.