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Health emergency - notification of directions Duty
- Description
- Where a local authority (the "initiating authority") gives a direction under regulation 4(1), 5(1) or 6(1), or revokes such a direction, the initiating authority must notify:
(a) any local authority whose area is adjacent to the initiating authority's area,
(b) where the initiating authority is a London borough council, every other London borough council,
(c) where the initiating authority is the county council for an area for which there is also a district council, the district council, and
(d) where the initiating authority's area is adjacent to the area of a council in Scotland constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 or a county or county borough council in Wales, that council.
Where a local authority is notified under paragraph (1)(a) or (b), the authority must:
(a) consider, as soon as may be reasonably practicable, whether to exercise its own powers under these Regulations,
(b) notify the initiating authority of what it has decided to do, and
(c) if it is a county council for an area for which there is also a district council, notify the district council of the matter notified to it by the initiating authority and of its own decision.
- Modified
- 08 Feb 2022
- Status
- Live
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