sec.332Coordination responsibility

### sec.332 Coordination responsibility On the declaration of a public health emergency, the chief executive is responsible for the overall management and control of the response to the emergency. The chief executive is taken to be— if the chief executive is a doctor—an emergency officer (medical) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (medical) may exercise under this chapter; or if the chief executive is not a doctor—an emergency officer (general) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (general) may exercise under this chapter. For coordinating the response by emergency officers to the declared public health emergency, the chief executive may give directions about the circumstances in which powers available to emergency officers under this chapter may be exercised. A direction given under subsection (3) — may be general or limited to a particular class of emergency officers; and may be given on conditions. s 332 amd 2006 No. 25 s 241 (2) sch 4 (sec.332-ssec.1) On the declaration of a public health emergency, the chief executive is responsible for the overall management and control of the response to the emergency. (sec.332-ssec.2) The chief executive is taken to be— if the chief executive is a doctor—an emergency officer (medical) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (medical) may exercise under this chapter; or if the chief executive is not a doctor—an emergency officer (general) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (general) may exercise under this chapter. (sec.332-ssec.3) For coordinating the response by emergency officers to the declared public health emergency, the chief executive may give directions about the circumstances in which powers available to emergency officers under this chapter may be exercised. (sec.332-ssec.4) A direction given under subsection (3) — may be general or limited to a particular class of emergency officers; and may be given on conditions. - (a) if the chief executive is a doctor—an emergency officer (medical) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (medical) may exercise under this chapter; or - (b) if the chief executive is not a doctor—an emergency officer (general) and has and may exercise all the powers an emergency officer (general) may exercise under this chapter. - (a) may be general or limited to a particular class of emergency officers; and - (b) may be given on conditions.