AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1999
AUTHORITY 2003*
Notifiable instrument NI2003-32
Pursuant to subsection 27(1) of the Emergency Management Act 1999, I AUTHORISE:
Peter Lucas Smith
	14.55Hrs

to exercise the powers specified in the Attachment.

Dated this 18th day of January 2003

Deputy Commissioner John Murray
Territory Controller

ATTACHMENT

POWERS
(a)	to direct the movement of persons, animals or vehicles within, into or around the emergency area;
(b)	to give directions to regulate or prohibit the movement of persons, animals or vehicles within, into or around the emergency area;
(c)	to enter land, a building, structure or vehicle within the emergency area using such force as is necessary and reasonable in the circumstances;
(d)	to excavate land or form tunnels;
(e)	to construct earthworks, erect barriers or temporary structures;
(f)	to turn off, disconnect or shut down any motor or equipment;
(h) to open any receptacle, or dismantle any equipment, using such force as is necessary and reasonable in the circumstances;
(h)	to bring any apparatus or equipment onto land or into a building, structure or vehicle;
(i)	to evacuate persons or animals from the emergency area, or part of the emergency area, to such place as the controller thinks fit;
(j)	to contain any animal or substance within the emergency area;
(k)	to control, use, close off or block any drainage facility within the emergency area;
(I)	to control, shut off or disconnect any supply of fuel, gas, electricity or water;
(m)	to appropriate, acquire or abstract from, any supply of fuel, gas, electricity or water and use any such supply;
(n)	to take possession of any land, building, structure, vehicle, animal, substance or other thing;
(o)	to direct the owner of any property, by notice in writing to the owner, to place the property under the control, or at the disposal, of the controller;
(p) to remove, dismantle, demolish or destroy any building, structure or vehicle within the emergency area;
(q)	to remove or destroy any animal, substance or vegetation within the emergency area; and
(r)	to maintain, restore, or prevent disruption of, essential services.
[Explanatory Note: Powers struck from this instrument by line and the Territory Controllers initial do not form part of this instrument.]
Territory Controller
Date: 18/1/03