Civil Defence Bill 2002

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Civil Defence Bill 2002 would replace outdated civil-defence arrangements under the 1939 and 1946 Air Raid Precautions Acts with a Civil Defence Board. The Board would oversee and coordinate civil defence, advise the Minister for Defence, manage training and equipment, support emergency services, and set procedures for recruiting and registering members. Local authorities would prepare three-year development plans and report on their civil-defence work, while the Board would fund approved activities and develop community support programmes.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to promote and support the development of civil defence planning and management and to facilitate the implementation of civil defence measures; to promote, develop and maintain civil defence as an effective service in support of the emergency services; to provide for the recruitment and registration of civil defence members, and for those purposes to establish a body to be known as the Civil Defence Board or, in the Irish language, an Bord Cosanta Sibhialta; to transfer functions from the Minister for Defence to that body; to amend the Air-Raid Precautions Act, 1939, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018