the organisation, formation, maintenance, equipment and training of civil defence forces and services;

the organisation, equipment and training for civil defence purposes of police forces, F2employees of fire and rescue authorities and employees of local or police authorities employed primarily for purposes other than civil defence purposes;

the instruction of members of the public in civil defence and their equipment for the purposes of civil defence;

the provision, storage and maintenance of commodities and things required for civil defence; and

the provision, construction, maintenance or alteration of premises, structures or excavations required for civil defence and the doing of any other work required for civil defence.

the organisation, formation, maintenance, equipment and training of civil defence forces and services;

the organisation, equipment and training for civil defence purposes of police forces, F3employees of relevant authorities (as defined in section 6 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5) and employees of local or police authorities employed primarily for purposes other than civil defence purposes;

the instruction of members of the public in civil defence and their equipment for the purposes of civil defence;

the provision, storage and maintenance of commodities and things required for civil defence; and

the provision, construction, maintenance or alteration of premises, structures or excavations required for civil defence and the doing of any other work required for civil defence.

may require that, as respects the exercise of any functions conferred on them under this section, any local or police authority shall be bound to comply with any directions given to them by the designated Minister;

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may empower the designated Minister, where he is satisfied that a local or police authority have failed or refused properly to discharge any functions conferred on them under this section, either himself to discharge those functions in the name and at the expense of that local or police authority or to authorise or require some other authority or person to exercise those functions in the name and at the expense of that local or police authority;

may, on such conditions, if any, as may be prescribed by the regulations, authorise or require things to be done in contravention of, or without compliance with, any statutory provision regulating or restricting the carrying out of building, engineering, mining or other operations in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change in the use of any buildings or other land; and

may authorise the employment of personnel, and the provision, construction or maintenance of premises and equipment, in excess of any limits imposed by any statutory provision.

determine the aggregate amount of grants to be made under subsection (1),

determine for each authority the amount of grant (if any) to be made under subsection (1),

publish each amount determined under paragraph (a) or (b),

publish any formula or other criteria used to determine whether to make a grant to an authority, and

publish any formula or other criteria used to determine the amount of a grant.

may use different formulae or other criteria in making determinations for different authorities, and

may vary a determination by a further determination.

a grant for a financial year need not be paid in that year, and

a grant may be paid in instalments.

the authority receives by way of grant under section 3 for a financial year, and

exceeds the amount to which the authority is entitled under that section for that year (whether or not by virtue of a varying determination under section 3(3)(b)).

any land required by them for discharging any of the functions exercisable by them respectively under the preceding provisions of this Act; and

in the case of the designated Minister, any land required by any other Minister or any local or police authority for discharging any functions exercisable under the preceding provisions of this Act by that other Minister or that authority,

the powers conferred by this subsection shall be exercisable subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed by regulations to be made by the designated Minister, and to such provisions as to compensation as may be so prescribed; and

in no event shall the said powers be exercised unless the designated Minister or local authority, as the case may be, is or are satisfied that the shelter will not so obstruct the F8highwayF8road as substantially to diminish the utility of the F8highwayF8road to the public.

shall, if so required, produce some duly authenticated document showing his authority;

shall not demand admission as of right to any land which is occupied unless twenty-four hours’ notice of the intended entry has been given to the occupier.

any person who, in compliance with the provisions of this section, is admitted into a factory or workplace, discloses, otherwise than in the performance of his duty, to any person any information obtained by him in the factory or workplace with regard to any manufacturing process or trade secret; or

any person to whom, by reason of his official position, any information obtained as aforesaid is disclosed, discloses, otherwise than in the performance of his duty, that information to any person,

for the references to the M3Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946, and to subsection (1) of section eight thereof, there shall respectively be substituted references to the M4Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947, and to subsection (1) of section seven thereof; and

in subsection (5), for the words from F10“section 9” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words F11“section 10 of the M5Police (Scotland) Act 1967 on police authorities to acquire compulsorily land required for the purposes of their functions under that Act”.

by virtue of any enactment any of the functions of a local authority are exercised by that authority jointly with one or more other local authorities or by a joint board or joint committee; and

by virtue of this Act, an obligation is imposed, or a power conferred, on a local authority in respect of any of these functions,

bring again into force any provision of the Civil Defence Acts 1937 and 1939, the operation of which is suspended under the M7Civil Defence (Suspension of Powers) Act 1945, and, in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding words, any provision of those Acts relating to factories, mines, commercial buildings or public utility undertakings, the operation of which was suspended as aforesaid;

direct that any provision of those Acts which was spent before the passing of the M8Civil Defence (Suspension of Powers) Act 1945, and, in particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the preceding words, any provision of those Acts relating to notices to be given and grants to be made in the case of factories, mines, commercial buildings or public utility undertakings which was spent as aforesaid, shall again come into force;

make, in any of the provisions of the said Acts, whether in force by virtue of regulations made under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection or in force otherwise, any such amendments as appear to him to be required owing to the passage of time or to be necessary or expedient to adapt them to any changes which have occurred since the passing of the said Acts either in the law or in the relevant circumstances, including, in particular, any actual or apprehended developments in the forms of warfare;

repeal any of the provisions of the said Acts and, if it appears to him necessary or expedient so to do having regard to any such changes as aforesaid, substitute any comparable provision for any provision so repealed; and

amend or extend any of the provisions of the M9Rating and Valuation (Air Raid Works) Act 1938, or the M10Rating and Valuation (Air Raid Works) (Scotland) Act 1938,

may make different provision for different cases or classes of case; and

may contain such consequential and incidental provisions as may appear to the designated Minister to be necessary or expedient,

a billing authority or a precepting authority, as defined in section 69 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority;