Queensland Council Disaster Vulnerable Persons Register Record

Completed registrations and entries in a Queensland council or Local Disaster Management Group vulnerable persons register (VPR), also called a special needs register or a register of persons requiring special assistance in a disaster or evacuation. A populated entry ties a named person and home address to disability, mobility or medical dependency (oxygen, dialysis, life sustaining equipment), a carer or emergency contact, and evacuation or transport needs. The Disaster Management Act 2003 does not create or name these registers. Councils keep them under the state framework "People with vulnerabilities in disasters: A framework for an effective local response" (2016) and their own local disaster management arrangements. Information acquired while performing a function under the Act is covered by the s 139 confidentiality offence. The Local Disaster Management Plan is public (s 60) but the register is not.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium. The register titles are distinctive but not statutory. "Vulnerable Persons Register" and the form title "Registration - Persons Requiring Special Assistance in a Disaster/Evacuation" come from a Queensland council page and form (Central Highlands Regional Council, Annexure 3-C). Other councils word their forms differently, and recall on differently titled registers is lower. The needs, contact and person field labels follow that form: person being registered, contact person who can provide special assistance, description of special requirements, support aid animal, life sustaining equipment, relationship to the person being registered. Framework vocabulary adds oxygen dependent, reliant on medical equipment and medication, and carers. Field values are loose and placeholder-guarded. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy. Test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au, au-qld
Regulations: Disaster Management Act 2003 (Qld), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Public Records Act 2023 (Qld)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: health, pii, government
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 9
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:vulnerable\s+persons?\s+register(?:\s+(?:registration|form|entry|record))?|VPR\W{0,4}(?:registration|entry|record|form)|persons?\s+requiring\s+special\s+assistance\s+in\s+a\s+disaster|special\s+needs\s+registration(?:\s+form)?|people\s+with\s+vulnerabilities\s+in\s+disasters)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

special assistance, evacuation, life sustaining equipment, oxygen, wheelchair, carer, contact person, Local Disaster Management Group

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Vulnerable Persons Register - registration record Name: Avery Teston Address: 14 Wattlebird Street, Emerald QLD 4720 Do you live alone? Yes Contact person: Morgan Teston (daughter) 0491 570 156 Description of special requirements: uses a wheelchair, oxygen dependent, requires transport to hospital Life sustaining equipment: oxygen concentrator — Completed VPR entry with person, address, needs and contact fields (85 tier)
Registration - Persons Requiring Special Assistance in a Disaster/Evacuation CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT Full name: Jamie Teston Residential address: 3/27 Carrington Avenue, Blackwater QLD 4717 Medical condition: home haemodialysis three times weekly Carer: Riley Teston Assistance animal: guide dog — Completed council special-assistance registration with dialysis dependency and carer (85 tier)
VPR entry updated 12/09/2026. Evacuation needs: bed-bound, requires stretcher transport; SES to phone before cyclone landfall. — Register note with a populated evacuation needs field only (75 tier)
Local disaster coordinator - vulnerable persons register extract for the Emerald flood evacuation Resident: Casey Teston Location: 8 Sandpiper Court, Emerald — LDMG register extract with a named resident and address only (75 tier)

Should not match

People with vulnerabilities in disasters: A framework for an effective local response. People may have impaired mobility, multiple chronic health conditions, or be reliant on medical equipment and medication, and some are oxygen dependent. — State framework text (guidance exclusion, 65 at most)
Registration - Persons Requiring Special Assistance in a Disaster/Evacuation Details of person being registered Name: Address: Telephone: Contact person who can provide special assistance, support and/or information. (e.g. parent, sibling, etc.) Name: Description of special requirements. (e.g. use a wheelchair, requires transport to hospital) Please provide details: ______________ — Blank council registration form (labels without values, 65 only)
Vulnerable Persons Register. Council maintains this register to better support people who may require special assistance during a disaster or emergency event. Download the VPR registration form and email it to council. — Council VPR web page (65 only)
The council says 412 residents are now on its vulnerable persons register ahead of storm season, up from 350 last year. — News with aggregate numbers (65 only)
Local Disaster Management Plan (available for inspection under s 60). The LDMG will use the vulnerable persons register to prioritise evacuation assistance. Special needs: see Annexure 3-C. — Public LDMP text that refers to the register (65 only)
Vulnerable persons register - use this template for staff induction Name: Alex Teston Address: 1 Example Street, Emerald Carer: Sam Teston — Induction template with fixture framing (template exclusion)

Known false positives

Council VPR web pages, the state framework, LDMPs and news that name the register. Mitigation: Enforce tiers need a populated field, and a guidance exclusion suppresses the framework, fact sheets and FAQ pages.
Blank registration forms. Mitigation: Values must be on the same line as the label, and blank lines, square-bracket and angle-bracket placeholders and n/a/tbc/see values are rejected, so a form's stacked labels never count.
Evacuation-centre sign-in sheets and recovery assistance files that do not use a register title. Mitigation: Not matched here. Recovery aid files are covered by global-top500-399-emergency-aid-request-files, and emergency contact lists by global-top500-046-emergency-contact-details.