Emergency Management Bill

Proactively released material related to the Emergency Management Law Reform Programme.

• Ministerial Review: Better Responses to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies in New Zealand
  • This page provides proactively released material related to the Government Response to the TAG Report August 2018

• Cabinet paper (2020): Updating the legislative framework to strengthen New Zealand’s response to emergencies – tranche one (.pdf 20mb)

• Cabinet Paper (2021): Emergency Management System Reform (.pdf 1.4mb)
  • The following documents have been included in this release:
    • Title of paper: Emergency Management System Reform (GOV-21-SUB-0043 refers)
    • Title of minute: Emergency Management System Reform (GOV-21-MIN-0043 refers)

• Regulatory Impact Statement (2021): Emergency Management System Reforms – Iwi and Māori Contributions to Emergency Management, Legal Framework and Critical Infrastructure (.pdf 24mb)

• Regulatory Impact Statement (2022): Emergency Management System Reforms  (.pdf 7.5mb)

• Cabinet paper (2022): Emergency Management System Reform Proposals (.pdf 9.1mb)
  • The following documents have been included in this release: 
    • Title of paper: Emergency Management System Reform Proposals (GOV-22-SUB-0031 refers) 
    • Title of Regulatory Impact Statement: Emergency Management System Reforms  
    • Title of minute: Emergency Management System: Reform Proposals (CAB-22-MIN-0339.01 refers) 

• Emergency Management Bill: Approval for Introduction (.pdf 1.3mb)
  • The following documents have been included in this release:
    • Title of paper: Emergency Management Bill: Approval for Introduction (LEG-22-SUB-0239 refers)
    • Title of paper: Emergency Management Bill: Draft Departmental Disclosure Statement
    • Title of minute: Report of the Cabinet Legislation Committee: Period Ended 16 December 2022 (CAB-22-MIN-0601 refers)
    • Title of minute: Emergency Management Bill: Approval for Introduction (CAB-22-MIN-0601.01 refers)

• Documents relating to the Government’s decision to not proceed with the Emergency Management Bill (.pdf 3mb)
  • 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

View the Bill at Emergency Management Bill 225-1 (2023), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation

View the Minister for Emergency Management's media release about the Bill's introduction at https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/emergency-management-bill-introduced 

View progress of the Bill through Parliament at Emergency Management Bill (bills.parliament.nz)

Departmental disclosure statement https://disclosure.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2023/225

Emergency Management Bill: Overview of proposed changes factsheet (.pdf 193kb)

Diagram of structural arrangements under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 and proposed in the Emergency Management Bill (.pdf 90kb)

Table comparing Emergency Management Bill and Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 (.pdf 280kb) (.docx 55kb)