The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005

Arrangements to be maintained by general Category 1 responder with lead responsibility

33.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies to a general Category 1 responder which –

(a) has been, pursuant to regulation 32 or an analogous provision in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Part 1, identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing advice and information in a particular local resilience area if a particular emergency or an emergency of a particular kind is likely to occur or has occurred; or

(b) is likely to be identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for that activity by virtue of procedures adopted pursuant to regulation 32(2)(b) or (c) or an analogous provision in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Part 1.

(2) A general Category 1 responder to which this paragraph applies must ensure so far as reasonably practicable that the arrangements maintained under section 2(1)(g) in relation to a particular emergency or an emergency of a particular kind in relation to which it has the lead responsibility for warning the public and providing advice and information ensure that –

(a) it is able to contact the other Category 1 responders which have functions which are exercisable in that local resilience 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) it informs those 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) it is able to collaborate with those Category 1 responders in warning the public and providing information and advice to the public.