{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004-contingency-planning-scotland-regulations-2005/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Multi-agency plans",
  "text": "(1) Scottish Category 1 responders which have–\n(a) functions which are exercisable in relation to a particular co-ordination area, and\n(b) a duty under section 2(1)(d) in relation to an emergency or an emergency of a particular kind,\nmust consider whether it would be appropriate to perform that duty in relation to that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind by way of a multi-agency plan.\n(2) In paragraph (1), a “multi-agency plan” means a plan maintained by more than one Scottish Category 1 responder acting jointly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/119), sch. 1 para. 27(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}