Executive Order No. 1 of 2026: State Emergency Management and Serious Incident Reviews: made

The Governor has made Executive Order No. 1 of 2026: State Emergency Management and Serious Incident Reviews.

Gives the Office of Emergency Services seven defined powers: independent serious incident reviews, coordination during declared emergencies, training and certification standards, 911 and dispatch standards, public emergency alerts, fire safety and hazard enforcement, and emergency services grants including the firefighter wellbeing programme. None of them allows discipline of agency staff, arrest, control of day-to-day operations or withholding money owed.

It comes into force at 18:00 on Monday 19 October 2026. To be reviewed with the Emergency Services Standards.

The full text is published in the register of regulations.