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

Chapter 3 : National Disaster Management

Part 2 : Powers and duties of national government

26. Responsibilities in event of national disaster

 

(1) The national executive is primarily responsible for the co-ordination and management of national disasters irrespective of whether a national state of disaster has been declared in terms of section 27.

 

(2) The national executive must deal with a national disaster
(a) in terms of existing legislation and contingency arrangements, if a national state of disaster has not been declared in terms of section 37(1); or
(b) in terms of existing legislation and contingency arrangements as augmented by regulations or directions made or issued in terms of section 27(2) if a national state of disaster has been declared.

 

(3) This section does not preclude a provincial or municipal organ of state from providing assistance to the national executive to deal with a national disaster and its consequences, and the national executive, in exercising its primary responsibility, must act in close co-operation with the other spheres of government.