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Civil Contingencies Act - Archive

The Civil Contingencies Bill became an Act of Parliament on 18 November, 2004. The text of the Civil Contingencies Act [External website] is on the OPSI website.

This page has the early Civil Contingencies Act documents from the consultation period. They are here for reference only, and are not now part of the legislative process.

In all cases, please look at the Civil Contingencies Act page for the most up-to-date version of the documents.

• Civil Contingencies Act 2004 - Identifying and Disseminating Good Practice - Article by Dan Greaves, Head of the Local Response and Civil Contingencies Act Team, CCS. Originally published in Blueprint, the magazine of the Emergency Planning Society [PDF 123KB, 5 pages].

• Civil Contingencies Act 2004: Performance Assessment Frameworks Category 1 responders' performance against the duties mandated by the Act is now integrated into existing mainstream performance assessment frameworks. This note sets out the arrangements as to how each sector will be assessed. [PDF, 121KB, 8 pages]

• 2006 Community Action Programme in the field of Civil Protection [PDF, 2 pages, 75KB]

• The Impact of Police Restructuring on Local Resilience Forums
  • Letter to Stakeholders, 9 Dec 2005 [PDF, 1 page, 67KB]
  • Home Office Written Ministerial Statement [PDF, 3 pages, 81KB]
  • Home Office briefing note [PDF, 2 pages, 45KB]

• The impact of the Act on social services
  • Association of Directors of Social Services Bulletin [PDF, 4 pages, 69KB] - 13 October 2005

• Publication of Emergency Response and Recovery
  • Letter to stakeholders, 23 September [PDF, 3 pages, 67KB]

• The inclusion of civil protection under the Beacon Scheme for local authorities
  • Round 8 Letter to Stakeholders, 21 March 2006 [PDF, 2 pages, 88KB]
  • Letter to Stakeholders, 6 Sept 2005 [PDF, 1 page, 46KB]

• The laying of Regulations under Part 1 of the Act and the publication of Emergency Preparedness
  • Letter to Stakeholders, 28 July 2005 [PDF, 2 pages, 107KB]

• The inclusion of Strategic Health Authorities in Category 2
  • Letter to stakeholders, 22 June 2005 [PDF, 1 page, 97KB]

• Emergency Preparedness Document [PDF, 231 pages, 930KB] Draft, 24 May 2005

• "Preparing for Emergencies" [PDF, 226 pages, 2.17MB] Early draft of Emergency Preparedness, 8 Dec 2004

• "Responding to Emergencies" [PDF, 74 pages, 779KB] Early draft of Emergency Response and Recovery, 8 Dec 2004

• Draft Regulations - 7 Dec 2004 [PDF, 26 pages, 276KB] 7 Dec 2004

• Draft Regulations [PDF, 30 pages, 551KB] 23 May 2005

• Consultation document [PDF, 13 pages, 271KB] 8 Dec 2004

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