Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016 Amendment Bill

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This bill amends the recently enacted Civil Defence Emergency Management Amendment Act 2016, bringing forward the commencement date of most provisions of the Act to allow them to be used to support recovery from the Hurunui/Kaikōura earthquake sequence, as well as providing transitional provisions and allowing owners of structures to be directed to obtain an assessment of the effect of an emergency on those structures.