Section Sch1C-10 — Employment Relations Act 2000: Contingency plans

10 Contingency plans (1) As soon as notice of industrial action is received or given, the Police must develop (if it has not already done so) a contingency plan and take all reasonable and practicable steps to ensure that it can provide Police emergency response services if industrial action occurs. (2) If the Police believes it cannot arrange to deliver Police emergency response services during industrial action without the assistance of members of a service organisation or organisations, or other union or unions, the Police must make a request to the relevant service organisation or other union seeking the service organisation’s, or other union’s, and its members’ agreement to maintain or to assist in maintaining Police emergency response services. (3) The request must include specific details about— (a) the Police emergency response service the Police seeks assistance to maintain; and (b) the Police’s contingency plan relating to that Police emergency response service; and (c) the support it requires from service organisation, or other union, members. (4) A request must be made by the close of the day after the date of the notice of industrial action. (5) As soon as practicable after the Police has made a request, but not later than 4 days after the date of the notice of industrial action, the parties must meet and negotiate in good faith and make every reasonable effort to agree on— (a) the extent of the Police emergency response service necessary to provide for public safety during the industrial action; and (b) the number of employees necessary to enable the Police to provide that Police emergency response service; and (c) a protocol for the management of emergencies that require additional emergency response services. (6) An agreement reached between the parties must be recorded in writing.