UK Resilience

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.

• Emergency Preparedness [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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