Preview page 13: The Disaster Management Act gives provincial disaster management centres the necessary legislative authority to compel organs of state and other role players to provide information necessary for the execution of their powers and the performance of their duties. Exercising this authority would create major difficulties from within a provincial or municipal line function department, particularly if this authority has to be exercised over a func- tionary in a supervisory or higher position in that or any other department. Clearly, it is in this context that the White Paper on Disaster Management...more
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