Proactive Release LEG-24-SUB-0039: Documents relating to the Government's decision not to proceed with the Emergency Management Bill

The following documents have been proactively released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on behalf of Hon Mark Mitchell, Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery:

Documents relating to the Government’s decision to not proceed with the Emergency Management Bill

The following documents have been included in this release:

• Title of paper: Discharging the Emergency Management Bill (LEG-24-SUB-0039 refers)
• Title of minute: Report of the Cabinet Legislation Committee Minute (CAB-24-MIN- 0099 refers)
• Title of minute: Discharging the Emergency Management Bill (LEG-24-SUB-0039 refers)
• Title of briefing: Emergency Management Bill: overview and next steps
• Annex One: Timeline of emergency management primary legislation
• Annex Two: Subsidiary instruments made under the CDEM Act 2002
• Annex Three: The 4Rs of emergency management
• Annex Four: Structural arrangements under CDEM Act and EM Bill
• Annex Five: Planning arrangements under CDEM Act and EM Bill
• Main changes made through the Emergency Management Bill

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant section of the Act that would apply has been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction codes:

• section 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of individuals
• section 9(2)(f)(iv), to maintain the confidentiality of advice tendered by or to Ministers and officials