The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) defines two different categories of responders (Category 1 Responders and Category 2 Responders) and the civil protection duties that they are required to perform. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (Contingency Planning) Regulations 2005 set out the detail of what those duties mean, and how they should be performed. The Regulations describe the extent of the duties imposed on organisations under the CCA and the manner in which those duties are to be performed. The main provisions cover the following:

• the requirement to cooperate in a ‘local resilience forum’ (England & Wales) (and equivalent provisions for Scotland), including the ability to identify lead responsibilities
  amongst responders;
• the duty of responders to assess risk and maintain a ‘community risk register’;
• the nature of response plans, including the requirement to have regard to the role of voluntary sector agencies and to include arrangements for exercising and training;
• the requirement to publish risk assessments and plans, and to have regard to the importance of not alarming the public unnecessarily; arrangements for discharging the duty to warn and inform the public;
• arrangements for the provision of advice and assistance to the public on business continuity (applies to local authorities);
• information sharing between responders, including the conditions in which information can be requested and shared;
• particular arrangements for London and Northern Ireland;
• and the requirement to conduct a review of the regulations.