Regulation 10 Role of Category 1 responder with lead responsibility

England, Wales and Scotland

If, pursuant to regulation 9 or an analogous provision in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers under Part 1, a general Category 1 responder has been identified as the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility for performing a relevant civil protection duty in a particular local resilience area, that general Category 1 responder must –

(a)

take the lead responsibility in performing that duty in that local resilience area;

(b)

consult the Category 1 responders which –

(i)

have functions which are exercisable in that local resilience area, and

(ii)

are non-lead Category 1 responders in relation to that duty,

in the course of performing the duty;

(c)

ensure that those non-lead Category 1 responders are kept informed of how the Category 1 responder with the lead responsibility is performing the duty;

(d)

co-operate with those non-lead Category 1 responders (and in particular, co-operate for the purpose of ensuring so far as is reasonably practicable that those Category 1 responders approve of the way in which the Category 1 responder with lead responsibility is performing the duty).