Role of Category 1 responder with lead responsibility
10. If, pursuant to regulation 9 or an analogous provision in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Part 1, a general Category 1 responder has been identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for performing a relevant civil protection duty in a particular local resilience area, that general Category 1 responder must –
(a)take the lead responsibility in performing that duty in that local resilience area;
(b)consult the Category 1 responders which –
(i)have functions which are exercisable in that local resilience area, and
(ii)are non-lead Category 1 responders in relation to that duty,
in the course of performing the duty;
(c)ensure that those non-lead Category 1 responders are kept informed of how the Category 1 responder with the lead responsibility is performing the duty;
(d)co-operate with those non-lead Category 1 responders (and in particular, co-operate for the purpose of ensuring so far as is reasonably practicable that those Category 1 responders approve of the way in which the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility is performing the duty).