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s 16National Disaster Management Centre

(1)

There is hereby established a

Centre known as the

National Disaster Management Centre to exercise or perform the following functions —

(a)

to help the Council exercise or perform its functions;

(b)

to advise and make recommendations to the Council about matters relating to disaster management referred by the Council to the

Centre;

(c)

to exercise or perform such other functions as the Council may determine, being incidental to a function mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

(2)

The Centre shall consist of a Director and such number of

Deputy Directors and such other persons to be appointed by the Minister, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, notice of whose appointment shall be published in the Gazette.

(3)

The Director may delegate the exercise of any power or the performance of any duty conferred or imposed on him by this Act to a

Deputy Director of the Centre or to such other members of the Centre, appointed under subsection (2), as he may think fit.

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(4)

A delegation under subsection (3) may be made subject to such conditions as may be determined by the Director in the instrument of delegation.

(5)

The power of delegation under subsection (3) shall only be exercised by the Director personally.