PART 7Advice and assistance to business and voluntary organisations
Co-operation, relevant responder with lead responsibility etc.35.
(1)
Relevant responders which have functions which are exercisable in a particular F1co-ordination area must co operate with each other in connection with the performance of their duties under section 4(1).
(2)
The other responders which have functions which are exercisable in that F1co-ordination area must co operate with those relevant responder in connection with the performance by that relevant responder of its duties under section 4(1).
(3)
A relevant responder may–
(a)
perform its duty under section 4(1) jointly with another responder; or
(b)
make arrangements with another responder for that responder to perform such a duty on behalf of the relevant responder.
(4)
Regulations 6, 7 and 8 apply to relevant responders for the purpose of performing the duty under section 4(1) as if–
(a)
each reference to a Category 1 responder or a general Category 1 responder were a reference to a relevant responder; and
(b)
each reference to a duty under section 2(1)(a) to (f) were a reference to the duty under section 4(1) in relation to an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind.