Disaster Management Act No. 34 of 2012.

This Act, consisting of 60 sections divided into five Chapters, establishes the activities to To fulfill the objectives of this Act, there would be a council named National Disaster Management Council. The responsibility of the Council, are: Provide strategic guidelines concerned to policies and plans about disaster management; Review method of existing disaster risk reduction and emergency response programmes; Evaluation of disaster preparedness programmes and provide strategic consultancy to concern authority, committee and persons for development of post disaster response and rescue operations; Provide necessary directives or consultation to concern authority and persons to arrange seminars, workshops etc. to increase awareness about related issues.
The Act is divided as follows: Preamble (Chap. I); Organizational Structure of Disaster Management (Chap. II); Disaster zone declaration, participation of different forces, etc. (Chap. III); Disaster Management Fund, Relief vault, etc. (Chap. IV); Offense, punishment, etc. (Chap. V); Miscellaneous (Chap. VI).