SCHEDULE 4 - Savings and trans SCHEDULE 4 - Savings and transitional provisions

Section 66

1.   Interpretation

In this Schedule –

commencement day means the day on which this Act commences;

counter-disaster measures has the same meaning as in the Repealed Act;

Director of Emergency Services means the person appointed as Director of Emergency Services under section 20 of the Repealed Act;

Region Disaster Planning Group means a Region Disaster Planning Group established under section 15 of the Repealed Act;

Repealed Act means the Emergency Services Act 1976 ;

State Disaster Committee means the State Disaster Committee established by section 6 of the Repealed Act;

State Disaster Executive means the State Disaster Executive established by section 9 of the Repealed Act.

2.   State Disaster Committee and State Disaster Executive

(1) The State Disaster Committee is abolished.

(2) Each person who is a member of the State Disaster Committee specified in section 6(2)(b), (c) and (d) and (3) of the Repealed Act immediately before the commencement day is taken to be a member of the State Committee, and –

(a) in the case of a member of the State Disaster Group who does not have an instrument of appointment or nomination, the State Controller is taken to have determined the position or office held by that member for the purposes of section 8(1)(b) of this Act; or

(b) in the case of a member of the State Disaster Group who was appointed or nominated by instrument of appointment or nomination, that appointment or nomination continues and is taken to be an appointment made by the State Controller under .