(1) For emergency
management purposes, an emergency officer may do all or any of these —
(a)
enter or, if necessary, break into and enter, any premises in the emergency
area;
(b)
search any premises in the emergency area and anything found in or on the
premises;
(c) take
into any premises in the emergency area the persons, machinery, equipment or
materials the emergency officer reasonably requires for exercising a power
under this Division;
(d)
authorise the transportation, storage and disposal of bodies of deceased
persons anywhere (whether inside or outside the emergency area);
(e)
contain an animal, substance or thing in the emergency area;
(f)
remove or destroy any animal, vegetation, substance or thing in the emergency
area;
(g)
remove, dismantle, demolish or destroy any premises in the emergency area;
(h)
disconnect or shut off any electricity, gas, water or fuel supply, or any
drainage facility, or any other service, in the emergency area;
(i)
take and use fuel, gas, electricity or water in the
emergency area;
(j)
direct the owner or occupier or the person apparently in charge of any place
in the emergency area to close that place to the public for the period
specified in the direction;
(k) turn
off, disconnect, dismantle or shut down any machinery, equipment or other
thing in the emergency area;
(l) open
a container or other thing in the emergency area;
(m)
excavate land or form tunnels in the emergency area;
(n)
build earthworks or temporary structures, or erect barriers, in the emergency
area;
(o)
remove to, or, subject to section 191, detain in, any place or premises that
the emergency officer thinks proper any person who obstructs or threatens to
obstruct emergency management activities;
(p)
without limiting any other emergency power, exercise any serious public health
incident power;
(q)
direct a person to give the emergency officer reasonable assistance to
exercise the emergency officer’s powers under this Division.
(2) An emergency
officer may enter any premises in the emergency area without a warrant or the
consent of the occupier of the premises or, in the case of a vehicle, the
owner of the vehicle.
(3) Without limiting
subsection (1)(q), an emergency officer exercising an emergency power under
this Division may be assisted by a police officer or other person.
(4) Subsection (1)(d)
overrides —
(a) the
Cemeteries Act 1986 section 11; and
(b) the
Cremation Act 1929 .