PART 4

Recruitment and Registration

Recruitment of civil defence members.

34. —(1) The Board may, subject to the consent of the Minister, make regulations establishing procedures for the recruitment of persons as civil defence members.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations may include all or any of the following:

(a) eligibility criteria;

(b) the form and manner in which an application for registration as a civil defence member shall be made;

(c) the conditions for retaining registration as a civil defence member, including conditions relating to relevant minimum standards of training.

The register.

35. —(1) As soon as practicable after the establishment day, each local authority shall establish and maintain, in the manner that the Board may determine, a register which shall be known as the Register of Civil Defence Members.

(2) The register may be kept in any form subject to its being capable of being converted into a legible form and being used to make a legible copy or reproduction of any entry in the register.

(3) The Board may determine the information to be entered in the register which shall include:

(a) in the case of a person who becomes a civil defence member after the coming into operation of this section—

(i) name, address and telephone number;

(ii) date of birth;

(iii) qualifications and experience relevant to civil defence;

(iv) date of registration;

(v) registration number;

(vi) any other information that the Board considers appropriate,

and

(b) in the case of a person who is a civil defence member before the coming into operation of this section—

(i) name, address and telephone number;

(ii) date of birth;

(iii) registration number.

(4) The register shall be kept at the offices of each local authority and shall be made available for inspection by the following persons only:

(i) the county or city manager or any person to whom he or she has, by order, delegated his or her functions relating to civil defence;

(ii) the Board;

(iii) a civil defence member insofar as there is information entered in the register relating to that member.

(5) For the purpose of ensuring the accuracy of the register, a local authority shall—

(a) correct errors in the register, and

(b) enter in the register every change which comes to its knowledge in respect of the information entered in the register relating to a civil defence member whose name is entered in the register.

(6) A civil defence member whose name is entered in the register shall, as soon as practicable, inform the Board, in writing, of—

(a) any errors in the register of which the member is aware in relation to his or her registration, and

(b) any change in the information entered in the register in relation to that member.