AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1999
ASSIGNMENT OF TERRITORY CONTROLLER FUNCTIONS AND POWERS 2003*
Notifiable instrument NI2003-30
Pursuant to subsection 22(2) of the Emergency Management Act 1999 and with regard to the State of Emergency declared on 18/1/03 I ASSIGN to the Territory Controller the functions and powers specified in the Attachment.
Dated this 18 day of January 2003
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Mr Jon Stanhope, MLA
Acting Minister for Police and Emergency Services

ATTACHMENT
FUNCTIONS
(a)	manage the response to, and the recovery from, the emergency by ensuring that agencies, organisations and other persons committed to dealing with the emergency are appropriately deployed;
(b)	coordinate the disposition of other resources to manage the emergency;
(c)	ensure that appropriate emergency management is implemented;
(d)	provide advice to the Minister (JACS) about the emergency;
(e)	undertake activities in cooperation with other persons which the controller considers appropriate for the purpose of discharging his or her other functions; and
(f)	perform any other functions conferred on the Controller by the Act or any other law.

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;
(g)	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: Functions or powers struck from this instrument by line and the Minister's initial do not form part of this instrument.]

Minister for Police and Emergency Services:
Date: 18/1/03