The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Identification of Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning, informing and advising

26.—(1) If more than one Category 1 responder which has functions which are exercisable in a particular police area is subject to a duty under section 2(1)(g) in relation to an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind, paragraph (2) applies.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, the Scottish Category 1 responders referred to in paragraph (1) must co-operate with each other and any general Category responders referred to in paragraph (1) for the purpose of identifying which of them will be the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and for providing information and advice to the public if an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind is likely to occur or has occurred in that police area.

(3) In performing their duty under paragraph (2), Scottish Category 1 responders–

(a) may identify a particular Category 1 responder as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing information and advice to the public in relation to an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind before that emergency or an emergency of that kind is likely to occur or has occurred;

(b) may adopt a procedure by virtue of which the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing information and advice to the public may be identified when an emergency, or an emergency of a particular kind, is likely to occur or has occurred; and

(c) may adopt a procedure by virtue of which the identity of the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning the public and providing information and advice to the public (whether identified by virtue of arrangements of the kind specified in sub paragraph (a) or (b)) may be changed when an emergency is likely to occur or has occurred.