{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-act-1948-repealed/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-act-1948-repealed/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/5",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Defence Act 1948 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-defence-act-1948-repealed",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Civil defence obligations of constables, firemen, etc., and of members of civil defence forces and services.",
  "text": "It is hereby declared that members of police forces and employees of fire and rescue authorities , and, if and so far as provision in that behalf is made by regulations of the designated Minister, employees of local authorities or police authorities employed primarily for purposes other than civil defence purposes, are, as such, under a duty to comply with requirements as to training for and taking part in any form of civil defence for the time being recognised by the designated Minister as appropriate to be undertaken by those forces . . . and their members respectively and by employees of fire and rescue authorities or, as the case may be, as appropriate to be undertaken by employees of the class in question having regard to the nature of the work for which those employees are primarily employed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (E.W.) (1.10.2004 for E. and 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), ss. 53, 61, Sch. 1 para. 11(3)(a); S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2 (subject to art. 3); S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2004 for E. and 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), ss. 53, 54, 61, Sch. 1 para. 11(3)(b), Sch. 2; S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2 (subject to art. 3); S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 inserted (E.W.) (1.10.2004 for E. and 10.11.2004 for W.) by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21), ss. 53, 61, Sch. 1 para. 11(3)(c); S.I. 2004/2304, art. 2 (subject to art. 3); S.I. 2004/2917, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/5/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:38.861624+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."
}