Commentary on Sections Section 5: General measures
24.Subsections (1) and (2) enable a Minister of the Crown and, in relation to Scottish Category 1 responders, the Scottish Ministers, to require a Category 1 responder to perform a function for a purpose relating to an emergency. This provision does not permit the conferral of additional functions on a Category 1 responder although subsections (4) and (5) enable provision to be made as to the manner in which the responder should exercise its function.