Regulation 12 Existing emergency planning duties

United Kingdom

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 F12015, 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 F2Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015, 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 M1, 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 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;

(e)

a radiation emergency, within the meaning of regulation 2 of the F3Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019, 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 F4Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019, which results from work with ionising radiation (within the meaning of those Regulations) to which those Regulations apply.

Annotations

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))
F2: Words in reg. 12(b) substituted (N.I.) (28.9.2015) by The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/325), reg. 1, Sch. 6 Pt. 2 (with reg. 3(2))
F3: Words in reg. 12(e) substituted (E.W.S.) (22.5.2019) by The Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/703), reg. 1(1), Sch. 10 para. 5 (with reg. 3)
F4: Words in reg. 12(f) substituted (N.I.) (1.11.2019) by The Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/185), reg. 1, Sch. 9 para. 3 (with reg. 3)

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1996/825; amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) s.328.
M2: S.I. 1997/193.