Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002)

To provide for—

•	an integrated and co-ordinated disaster management policy that focuses on preventing or reducing the risk of disasters, mitigating the severity of disasters, emergency preparedness, rapid and effective response to disasters and post-disaster recovery and rehabilitation;

•	the establishment and functioning of national, provincial and municipal disaster management centres;

•	disaster management volunteers; and

•	matters incidental thereto.

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:—

[Long title substituted by section 23 of Act No. 16 of 2015]