Any officer or authority of the Union or a State, when requested by the National Executive Committee, any State Executive Committee or District Authority or any person authorised by such Committee or Authority in this behalf, shall make available to that Committee or authority or person, such officers and employees as requested for, to perform any of the functions in connection with the prevention of disaster or mitigation or rescue or relief work.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, if it appears to the National
Executive Committee, State Executive Committee or the District Authority, as
the case may be, that provisions of any rule, regulation, notification,
guideline, instruction, order, scheme or bye-laws, as the case may be, are
required to be made or amended for the purposes of
prevention of disasters or the mitigation thereof, it may require the
amendment of such rules, regulation, notification, guidelines, instruction,
order, scheme or bye-laws, as the case may be, for that purpose, and the
appropriate department or authority shall take necessary action to comply
with the requirements.
(1) If it appears to the National Executive Committee, State Executive Committee or District Authority or any officer as may be authorised by it in this behalf that -
(a) any resources with any authority or person are needed for the purpose of prompt response;
(b) any premises are needed or likely to be needed for the purpose of rescue operations; or
(c) any vehicle is needed or is likely to be needed for the purposes of transport of' resources from disaster affected areas or transport of resources to the affected area or transport in connection with rescue, rehabilitation or reconstruction, such authority may, by order in writing, requisition such resources or premises or such vehicle, as the case may be, and may make such further orders as may appear to it to be necessary or expedient in connection with the requisitioning.
(2) Whenever any resource, premises or vehicle is requisitioned under sub-section (1), the period of such requisition shall not extend beyond the period for which such resource, premises or vehicle is required for any of the purposes mentioned in that sub-section.
(3) In this section,-
(a) "resources" includes men and material resources;
(b) "services" includes facilities;
(c) "premises" means any land, building or part of a building and includes a hut, shed or other structure or any part thereof;
(d) "vehicle" means any vehicle used or capable of being used for the purpose of transport, whether propelled by mechanical power or otherwise.
Section 33 Requisition by the District Authority
Section 35 Central Government to take measures
Section 36 Responsibilities of Ministries or Departments of Government of India
Section 37 Disaster management plans of Ministries or Departments of Government of India
Section 38 State Government to take measures
Section 39 Responsibilities of departments of the State Government
Section 40 Disaster management plan of departments of State
Section 41 Functions of the local authority
Section 42 National Institute of Disaster Management
Section 43 Officers and other employees of the National Institute
Section 44 National Disaster Response Force
Section 45 Control, direction, etc
Section 46 National Disaster Response Fund
Section 47 National Disaster Mitigation Fund
Section 48 Establishment of funds by State Government
Section 49 Allocation of funds by Ministries and Departments
Section 50 Emergency procurement and accounting
Section 51 Punishment for obstruction, etc
Section 52 Punishment for false claim
Section 53 Punishment for misappropriation of money or materials, etc
Section 54 Punishment for false warning
Section 55 Offences by Departments of the Government
Section 57 Penalty for contravention of any order regarding requisitioning
Section 58 Offence by companies
Section 59 Previous sanction for prosecution
Section 60 Cognizance of offences
Section 61 Prohibition against discrimination
Section 62 Power to issue direction by Central Government
Section 63 Powers to be made available for rescue operations
Section 64 Making or amending rules, etc., in certain circumstances
Section 65 Power of requisition of resources, provisions, vehicles, etc., for rescue operations, etc
Section 66 Payment of compensation
Section 67 Direction to media for communication of warnings, etc
Section 68 Authentication of orders or decisions
Section 69 Delegation of powers Section 70 Annual report Section 71 Bar of jurisdiction of court
Section 72 Act to have overriding effect
Section 73 Action taken in good faith
Section 74 Immunity from legal process
Section 75 Power of Central Government to make rules
Section 76 Power to make regulations
Section 77 Rules and regulations to be laid before Parliament