CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE
CONTINGENCY PLANNING
Does the law define "contingency plan"?
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Does the law require the competent authority to formulate contingency plans for diseases of national priority (e.g. this may include all or a subset of diseases contained within a list of notifiable diseases, if required under the national legal framework)?
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Does the law permit contingency plans to mandate all of the following measures?
• Administrative and logistic organization;
• Exceptional powers of the competent authority; and
• Special and temporary measures to address all identified risks to human or animal health.
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Section 3 (extract):
(3) Emergency regulations may provide for empowering such authorities or persons as may be specified in the regulations to make orders and rules for any of the purposes for which such regulations are authorized by this Act to be made, and may contain such incidental and
supplementary provisions as appear to the President to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the regulations.
(4) Emergency regulations shall specify the area to which they apply, and may contain provision for the exclusion of persons from the area so specified if it consists of only a part of the Republic.
