Act No. 16 of 2015

Act No. 16 of 2015 » Disaster Management Amendment Act, 2015

Title	Act No. 16 of 2015 » Disaster Management Amendment Act, 2015
Department	Parliament of the Republic of SA
Gazette	National Gazettes, No. 39520 of 15 December, 2015, 23 page(s), 263Kb
Act	Act No. 16 of 2015

2     No. 39520                       GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15 December 2015
                         Act No. 16 of 2015                       Disaster Management Amendment Act, 2015

GENERAL EXPLANATORY NOTE:

[]Words in bold type in square brackets indicate omissions from
                                            existing enactments.
                                            Words underlined with a solid line indicate insertions in
                                            existing enactments.

(English text signed by the President)
                                               (Assented to 13 December 2015)

ACT

To amend the Disaster ManagementAct, 2002, so as to substitute and insert certain
                         deﬁnitions; to clarify policy focus on rehabilitation and functioning of disaster
                         management centres; to align the functions of the National Disaster Management
                         Advisory Forum to accommodate the SouthAfrican National Platform for Disaster
                         Risk Reduction; to provide for the South African National Defence Force, South
                         African Police Service and any other organ of state to assist the disaster
                         management structures; to provide for an extended reporting system by organs of
                         state on information regarding occurrences leading to the declarations of disasters,
                         expenditure on response and recovery, actions pertaining to risk reduction and
                         particular problems experienced in dealing with disasters; to strengthen reporting
                         on implementation of policy and legislation relating to disaster risk reduction and
                         management of allocated funding to municipal and provincial intergovernmental
                         forums established in terms of the Intergovernmental Relations Framework Act,
                         2005; to strengthen the representation of traditional leaders in national, provincial
                         and municipal disaster management advisory forums; to expand the contents of
                         disaster management plans to include the conducting of disaster risk assessments
                         for functional areas and the mapping of risks, areas and communities that are
                         vulnerable to disasters; to provide measures to reduce the risk of disaster through
                         adaptation to climate change and developing of early warning mechanisms; to
                         provide for regulations on disaster management education, training and research
                         matters and declaration and classiﬁcation of disasters; and to provide for matters
                         incidental thereto.

E IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as
                         B follows:—
                         Amendment of section 1 of Act 57 of 2002

1. Section 1 of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as the
                         principal Act), is hereby amended—                                      5
                             (a) by the insertion before the deﬁnition of ‘‘Department’’ of the following
                                 deﬁnitions:
                                     ‘‘ ‘adaptation’ means—
                                     (a) in relation to human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or
                                         expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or 10
                                         exploit beneﬁcial opportunities; and

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