Ministry co-ordination
 6. (1) Despite subsections 1 (1), 2 (1), 3 (1), 4 (1) and 5 (1), two or three ministers whose ministries have not been assigned additional responsibility for a specific type of emergency under subsection 6 (1) of the Act may jointly do any one or more of the following: 1. Designate one employee of one of the ministries as emergency management program co-ordinator for the ministries and one employee of one of the ministries as an alternate. 2. Establish a joint emergency management program committee for the ministries. 3. Establish a joint ministry action group for the ministries. 4. Establish a joint emergency operations centre for the ministries. 5. Designate one employee of one of the ministries as emergency information officer for the ministries.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (1). (2) Subsections 1 (2) to (4) apply with necessary modifications to the emergency management program co-ordinator and alternate emergency management program co-ordinator for the ministries.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (2). (3) The joint emergency management program committee shall be composed of, (a) the ministries’ emergency management program co-ordinator; (b) a senior official of one of the ministries appointed jointly by the ministers; and (c) such employees of the ministries who are responsible for emergency management functions as may be appointed jointly by the ministers.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (3). (4) Subsections 2 (3) to (5) apply with necessary modifications to the joint emergency management program committee.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (4). (5) The joint ministry action group shall be composed of, (a) each deputy minister of the ministries or their designates; (b) the senior ministry official appointed to the joint emergency management program committee under clause (3) (b); (c) the ministries’ emergency management program co-ordinator; and (d) such other employees of the ministries as may be appointed jointly by the ministers.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (5). (6) Subsections 3 (3) to (10) apply with necessary modifications to the joint ministry action group.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (6). (7) Section 4 applies with necessary modifications to the joint emergency operations centre.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (7). (8) Subsection 5 (2) applies with necessary modifications to the emergency information officer for the ministries.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (8). (9) If two ministers designate one employee of one of the ministries as emergency management program co-ordinator for the ministries and one employee of one of the ministries as an alternate, but do not establish a joint emergency management program committee for the ministries or do not establish a joint ministry action group for the ministries, the ministries’ emergency management program co-ordinator shall serve on one of the ministries’ emergency management program committee or ministry action group, as the case may be, and the ministries’ alternate emergency management program co-ordinator shall serve on the other ministry’s emergency management program committee or ministry action group, as the case may be, as determined jointly by the ministers.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (9). (10) If three ministers designate one employee of one of the ministries as emergency management program co-ordinator for the ministries and one employee of one of the ministries as an alternate, but do not establish a joint emergency management program committee for the ministries or do not establish a joint ministry action group for the ministries, the ministers shall jointly appoint a second alternate emergency management program co-ordinator for the ministries and the ministries’ emergency management program co-ordinator, alternate and second alternate shall each serve on the emergency management program committee or ministry action group, as the case may be, for one of the ministries, as determined jointly by the ministers.  O. Reg. 380/04, s. 6 (10).