1. The purpose of this Act is the protection of persons and property as regards civil protection through effective disaster risk management and an optimal response to disasters with a view to promoting society’s disaster resilience.
To that end, the Act is intended to ensure that municipal and government authorities develop disaster risk awareness and plan and put in place coordinated, complementary and coherent measures to prevent disasters and prepare the response to them, and deploy emergency response and recovery measures to respond to disasters.
2024, c. 182024, c. 18, s. 1.