- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person1
Plus 17 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.003
Co-operation and Regional Resilience Partnership
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 responders must form Regional Resilience PartnershipsStatutory regulator
s.007
Role of Scottish Category 1 responder with lead responsibility
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Lead Category 1 responder must coordinate emergency planning dutiesLocal authority
s.008
Role of Scottish Category 1 responders which do not have lead responsibility
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 responders must support the lead responder during emergenciesStatutory regulator
s.013
Risk assessment
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Category 1 responders must use risk assessments for emergency plansStatutory regulator
s.014
Arrangements to warn, inform and advise the public
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Category 1 responders must coordinate public emergency informationLocal authority
s.015
General and specific plans
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Category 1 responders must maintain multi-emergency plansStatutory regulator
s.017
Voluntary organisations
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 responders must involve voluntary organisations in emergency planningStatutory regulator
s.021
Alarming the public unnecessarily
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Category 1 responders must avoid causing unnecessary public alarmStatutory regulator
s.025
Training and exercises
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 responders must provide emergency training and exercisesLocal authority
s.027
Arrangements to be maintained by Scottish Category 1 responder with lead responsibility
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Lead responders must coordinate and inform others during emergenciesLocal authority
s.029
Advice etc. provided by other responders and other bodies
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Category 1 responders must coordinate public emergency adviceStatutory regulator
s.032
Risk assessment
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Responders must use community risk registers when advising businessesStatutory regulator
s.033
Extent of the duty under section 4(1) in relation to business
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Emergency responders must provide business continuity advice to local firmsStatutory regulator
s.034
Extent of the duty under section 4(1) in relation to voluntary organisations
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Emergency responders must provide business continuity advice to charitiesLocal authority
s.037
Activities of other responders
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 and 2 responders must coordinate business advice and assistanceLocal authority
s.038
Charging
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Relevant responders may charge for advice or assistance provided on requestLocal authority
s.043
Information sharing – obligation to provide information
Regulated
- Category 1 and 2 responders must share information upon requestAny Person
s.047
Security of sensitive information
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Category 1 responders must secure sensitive emergency planning informationStatutory regulator
29 other provisions
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.004
Co operation with general Category 1 responders
s.005
Joint discharge of functions etc.
s.006
Identification of Category 1 responder with lead responsibility
s.009
Existing emergency planning duties
s.010
Kinds of emergency in relation to which risk should be assessed
s.011
Guidance and risk assessments issued by Scottish Ministers
s.012
Community risk register
s.016
Multi-agency plans
s.018
Procedure for determining whether an emergency has occurred
s.019
Training and exercises
s.020
Plan revision
s.022
Duty to have regard to emergency plans
s.023
General and specific arrangements to warn etc.
s.024
Alarming the public unnecessarily
s.026
Identification of Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for warning, informing and advising
s.028
Arrangements to be maintained by other Scottish Category 1 responders
s.030
Interpretation of Part 7
s.031
Transitional provision
s.035
Co-operation, relevant responder with lead responsibility etc.
s.036
Cross border co-operation with relevant responders in England and Wales
s.039
Sensitive information
s.040
Sensitive information – certificates in relation to national security
s.041
Information sharing – making a request for information
s.042
Information sharing – procedure for making a request
s.044
Information sharing – response to request
s.045
Disclosure or publication of sensitive information
s.046
Use of sensitive information
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.