Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
"emergency preparedness"
means—
(a) | a state of readiness which enables organs of state and other institutions involved in disaster management, the private sector, communities and individuals to mobilise, organise and provide relief measures to deal with an impending or current disaster or the effects of a disaster; and |
(b) | the knowledge and capacities developed by governments, professional response and recovery organisations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to and recover from the impacts of likely, imminent or current hazard events or conditions; |
[Definition substituted by section 1(f) of Act No. 16 of 2015]