Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025 (Vic)

Version No. 001

Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 50/2025

Version as at

29 June 2025

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provisions

3Commencement

4Revocation

5Definition

6Emergency risk management plan and documentation

7Exercise by responsible entity

8Responsible entity to conduct audit

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Endnotes

1     General information

2     Table of Amendments

3     Explanatory details

Version No. 001

Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025

S.R. No. 50/2025

Version as at

29 June 2025

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to make provision for the purposes of Part 7A of the Emergency Management Act 2013 for—

(a)the preparation of an emergency risk management plan; and

(b)the development, conduct and evaluation of an exercise; and

(c)the conduct of an audit; and

(d)any other matter necessary to be provided for in respect of that Part.

2Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 76 and 76A of the Emergency Management Act 2013.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 29 June 2025.

4Revocation

The Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2015[1] are revoked.

5Definition

In these Regulations, the Act means the Emergency Management Act 2013.

6Emergency risk management plan and documentation

For the purposes of section 74P of the Act, an emergency risk management plan must be prepared in accordance with the following, as published from time to time—

(a)AS ISO 31000: Risk management—Guidelines;

(b)SA HB 436.1: Risk management guidelines—Companion to AS ISO 31000—Part 1: Boards and executives.

7Exercise by responsible entity

For the purposes of section 74Q of the Act, an exercise must be developed, conducted and evaluated in accordance with the Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection—Managing Exercises, as published by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience from time to time.

8Responsible entity to conduct audit

For the purposes of section 74S of the Act, an audit must be conducted in accordance with AS/NZS ISO 19011: Guidelines for auditing management systems, as published from time to time.

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ENDNOTES

1   General information

See for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025, S.R. No. 50/2025 were made on 17 June 2025 by the Governor in Council under sections 76 and 76A of the Emergency Management Act 2013, No. 73/2013 and came into operation on 29 June 2025: regulation 3.

The Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025 will sunset 10 years after the day of making on 17 June 2035 (see section 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1994).

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided regulation, rule or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subregulations, subrules or subclauses the original regulation, rule or clause becomes subregulation, subrule or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original regulation, rule or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any heading inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; Orders; Parts into which an Order is divided; clauses; regulations; rules; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. 
See section 36(1A)(2A)(2B).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Statutory Rule.  Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in a Statutory Rule which is made on or after
1 January 2001 forms part of that Statutory Rule.  Any punctuation inserted in a Statutory Rule which was made before 1 January 2001, by a Statutory Rule made on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Statutory Rule.
See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in a Statutory Rule form part of that Statutory Rule, whether inserted in the Statutory Rule before, on or after
1 January 2001.  Provision numbers include regulation numbers, rule numbers, subregulation numbers, subrule numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs.  See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note.  As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of a Statutory Rule is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision.  For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision.  See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of a Statutory Rule.  See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2   Table of Amendments

There are no amendments made to the Emergency Management (Critical Infrastructure Resilience) Regulations 2025 by statutory rules, subordinate instruments and Acts.

3   Explanatory details

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 82/2015.

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Table of Applied, Adopted or Incorporated Matter

The following table of applied, adopted or incorporated matter was included in S.R. No. 50/2025 in accordance with the requirements of regulation 5 of the Subordinate Legislation Regulations 2024.

Statutory rule provision	Title of applied, adopted or incorporated document	Matter in applied, adopted or incorporated document
Regulation 6(a)	Australian Standard AS ISO 31000:2018 Risk management—Guidelines, published by Standards Australia on 30 October 2018	The whole
Regulation 6(b)	SA HB 436.1:2020 Risk management guidelines—Companion to AS ISO 31000: 2018—Part 1: Boards and executives, published by Standards Australia on 23 October 2020	The whole
Regulation 7	Australian Disaster Resilience Handbook Collection—Managing Exercises 2023, published by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience in 2023	The whole
Regulation 8	Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 19011:2019 Guidelines for auditing management systems, published by Standards Australia on 22 August 2019	The whole