Version No. 052
Emergency Management Act 1986
No. 30 of 1986
Version incorporating amendments as at
15 December 2023
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
Part 1—Preliminary
1Purpose
2Commencement
3Repeal
4Definitions
Part 2—Administration
5Role of Minister
7Delegation by Minister
Part 5—State of disaster
22Definitions
23Power of Premier to declare state of disaster
24Powers and duties of Minister
24AOffence of making false compensation claim
Part 6—Compensation of registered emergency workers
25Definitions
25AApplication
27When is compensation payable?
28Compensation for personal injuries
29Compensation for loss of or damage to property
30Jurisdiction
31Authority to represent Crown
32Payments
33Offence of making false compensation claim
34Entitlement where damages otherwise payable
35Funding of compensation scheme
Part 7—Miscellaneous
36Offence of obstructing, etc. emergency worker
36ADeclaration of emergency area
36BPowers in respect of emergency area
36COffences relating to declaration of emergency area
37Immunity
39Regulations
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Endnotes
1 General information
2 Table of Amendments
3 Explanatory details
Version No. 052
Emergency Management Act 1986
No. 30 of 1986
Version incorporating amendments as at
15 December 2023
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
PART 1—PRELIMINARY
1Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to provide for the organisation of emergency management in Victoria.
2Commencement
This Act comes into operation on a day or days to be proclaimed.
3Repeal
The State Disasters Act 1983 is repealed.
4Definitions
(1)In this Act—
active standby duty means being available at a particular place so that assistance can be quickly provided in the event of an emergency or a request for assistance;
agency means a government agency or a non‑government agency;
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emergency means an emergency due to the actual or imminent occurrence of an event which in any way endangers or threatens to endanger the safety or health of any person in Victoria or which destroys or damages, or threatens to destroy or damage, any property in Victoria or endangers or threatens to endanger the environment or an element of the environment in Victoria including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing—
(a)an earthquake, flood, wind-storm or other natural event; and
(b)a fire; and
(c)an explosion; and
(d)a road accident or any other accident; and
(e)a plague or an epidemic or contamination; and
(f)a warlike act or act of terrorism, whether directed at Victoria or a part of Victoria or at any other State or Territory of the Commonwealth; and
(g)a hi-jack, siege or riot; and
(h)a disruption to an essential service;
emergency activity means—
(a)performing a role or discharging a responsibility of an agency in accordance with the state emergency management plan; or
(b)training or practising for an activity referred to in paragraph (a) or being on active standby duty; or
(c)travelling to or from the place where an activity referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) has occurred or is to occur;
emergency area means…