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21.—(1) The Executive shall prepare and keep up to date arrangements to supply, in the event of an emergency (however that emergency may arise), information about and advice on the facts of the emergency, of the steps to be taken and, as appropriate, of the protective action applicable.
(2) The arrangements prepared and kept up to date under paragraph (1) shall provide for the information to be supplied at regular intervals in an appropriate manner, without delay, and without their having to request it, to members of the public who are actually affected by the emergency.
(3) In preparing those arrangements and in keeping them up to date, the Executive shall consult any other authority likely to be responsible for implementing the relevant protective action referred to in Schedule 8 and such other persons as appear to it to be appropriate.
(4) The information and advice to be supplied in accordance with arrangements prepared and kept up to date under paragraph (1) shall, if relevant to the type of emergency, include that specified in Schedule 8 and shall, in any event, mention the authority or authorities responsible for implementing the relevant protective action referred to in that Schedule.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the members of the public referred to in that paragraph as actually affected are those whose cooperation is sought to put into effect any steps or protective action referred to in paragraph (1).
(6) In this regulation, “emergency” includes a radiation emergency, but also includes any other emergency (whether within the United Kingdom or otherwise) which does or could have the same impact as a radiation emergency in Northern Ireland.
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