The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005 No. 2042

PART 2 U.K. General

Existing emergency planning duties U.K.

12.  General Category 1 responders need not perform a duty under section 2(1) in relation to an emergency which is –

(a) a major accident, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations [F1 2015], resulting from developments in the course of the operation of an establishment to which Part 2 of those Regulations applies;

(b) a major accident, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 M1 , resulting from developments in the course of the operation of an establishment to which Part 2 of those Regulations applies;

(c) a major accident, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996 M2 , involving a dangerous fluid (within the meaning of those Regulations) which is in, or has been conveyed in, a pipeline to which those Regulations apply;

(d) a major accident, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Pipelines Safety Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 M3 , involving a dangerous fluid (within the meaning of those Regulations) which is in, or has been conveyed in, a pipeline to which those Regulations apply;

(e) a radiation emergency, within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001 M4 , which results from work with ionising radiation (within the meaning of those Regulations) to which those Regulations apply; or

(f) a radiation emergency, within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 M5 , which results from work with ionising radiation (within the meaning of those Regulations) to which those Regulations apply.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 12(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (1.6.2015) by The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/483), reg. 1(1), Sch. 6 para. 3 (with reg. 3(2))

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2000/93.

M2 S.I. 1996/825; amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) s.328.

M3 S.I. 1997/193.

M4 S.I. 2001/2975; amended by S.I. 2002/2099 and S.I. 2002/2469.

M5 S.I. 2001/436.