{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-major-accident-hazards-regulations-2015/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-major-accident-hazards-regulations-2015/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/483",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-major-accident-hazards-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Review and testing of external emergency plans",
  "text": "(1) A local authority which has prepared an external emergency plan must at suitable intervals not exceeding three years—\n(a) review and, where necessary, revise the plan; and\n(b) test the plan.\n(2) Where regulation 13(5) applies, the local authority must first comply with paragraph (1) before the expiry of three years after the off-site emergency plan was prepared or last reviewed under the 1999 Regulations.\n(3) In carrying out a review of an external emergency plan, the local authority must take into account—\n(a) any changes, at the establishment, within the designated authorities concerned or, if the establishment is situated in England, NHS England and Public Health England, an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care;\n(b) any relevant new technical knowledge; and\n(c) any relevant new knowledge concerning the response to major accidents.\n(4) Where a local authority is of the opinion that an external emergency plan requires substantial revision, it must consult the persons referred to in regulation 13(7) before making those revisions.\n(5) Where a local authority is of the opinion that in order to test adequately an external emergency plan the co-operation of one or more designated authorities is necessary, it may in writing request such co-operation from those authorities.\n(6) Where a designated authority has received a request in accordance with paragraph (5), it must co-operate in the testing of the external emergency plan.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(3)(a) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/378), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 20(dd) (with art. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/483/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:01.967239+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."
}