{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/494",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Guidance and risk assessments issued by Scottish Ministers",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may issue to Scottish Category 1 responders (or any class of Scottish Category 1 responders) guidance as to–\n(a) the likelihood of a particular emergency or an emergency of a particular kind occurring;\n(b) the extent to which a particular emergency or an emergency of a particular kind would or might (if it occurred) cause damage to human welfare in a place in the Scotland, the environment of a place in Scotland or the security of the United Kingdom.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may issue to Scottish Category 1 responders (or any class of Scottish Category 1 responders) an assessment of the matters specified in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1).\n(3) In performing its duty under section 2(1)(a), a Scottish Category 1 responder must–\n(a) take into account any guidance issued to it under paragraph (1); and\n(b) adopt any assessment issued to it under paragraph (2).\n(4) Any guidance issued under paragraph (1) or assessment issued under paragraph (2) must be in writing.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 14.11.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/494/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:54.789088+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}