{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/36",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Contingencies Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-contingencies-act-2004",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Section 2: supplemental",
  "text": "(1) A Minister of the Crown may issue guidance to a person or body listed in Part 1 or 3 of Schedule 1 about the matters specified in section 2(3) and (5).\n(2) The Scottish Ministers may issue guidance to a person or body listed in Part 2 or 4 of Schedule 1 about the matters specified in section 2(4) and (5) (as applied by section 2(6)).\n(2A) The Welsh Ministers may issue guidance to a person or body listed in Part 2A or 5 of Schedule 1 about the matters specified in section 2(4A) and (5) (as applied by section 2(6A)).\n(3) A person or body listed in any Part of Schedule 1 shall—\n(a) comply with regulations under section 2(3), (4) or (4A) , and\n(b) have regard to guidance under subsection (1), (2) or (2A) above.\n(4) A person or body listed in Part 1, 2 or 2A of Schedule 1 may be referred to as a “Category 1 responder”.\n(5) A person or body listed in Part 3, 4 or 5 of Schedule 1 may be referred to as a “Category 2 responder”.\n(6) In relation to emergencies that do not fall within section 1(1)(c), the power under subsection (1) to issue guidance to the Chief Constable (PSNI) is exercisable by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland (and not by a Minister of the Crown).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3(2A) inserted (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 41(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(3)(a) substituted (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 41(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(3)(b) substituted (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 41(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(4) substituted (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 41(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(5) substituted (24.5.2018) by The Welsh Ministers (Transfer of Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/644), arts. 1(1), 41(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 3(6) inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 5, Sch. 3 para. 97(2) (with arts. 28-31, Sch. 3 para. 110)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 partly in force; s. 3 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 34; s. 3(1)(3)(4)(5) in force for specified purposes at 14.11.2005 by S.I. 2005/2040, art. 3(c); s. 3(2) in force and s. 3(4)(5) in force for specified purposes (S.) at 6.10.2005 and s. 3(3) in force for specified purposes (S.) at 14.11.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/493, arts. 3(c)(d), 4(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:42.679498+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."
}