27.—(1) The arrangements maintained under section 2(1)(g) by a Scottish Category 1 responder which is, pursuant to regulation 26 or any analogous provision of regulations made by the Minister of the Crown under Part 1, identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing advice and information to the public in a particular [F1co-ordination area] if an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind is likely to occur or has occurred, must ensure so far as reasonably practicable that if such an emergency is likely to occur or occurs that Scottish Category 1 responder–
(a)is able to contact the other Scottish and general Category 1 responders which have functions which are exercisable in that [F1co-ordination area] and which are subject to a duty under section 2(1)(g) in relation to that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind;
(b)informs those Scottish and general Category 1 responders of the actions it is taking, and action that it proposes to take, to warn the public and to provide information and advice to the public;
(c)is able to collaborate with those responders in warning the public and providing information and advice to the public.
(2) Paragraph (1) also applies to a Scottish Category 1 responder which is likely to be identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing advice and information to the public in a particular [F1co-ordination area] if an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind is likely to occur or has occurred by virtue of procedures adopted pursuant to regulation 26(2) and (3)(b) or (c).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/119), sch. 1 para. 27(3)
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