Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8)

PART 2 Fire reform

Further amendments of 2005 Act

111 Assistance

In section 35 of the 2005 Act (the title of which becomes “Assistance”)—

(a) for subsections (1) and (2), substitute—

“(1) SFRS may enter into arrangements with a person for securing the provision by that person of assistance for SFRS in the carrying out by SFRS of a relevant function.

(2) A person may provide assistance under arrangements made under subsection (1) only if the Chief Officer is satisfied that the person has sufficient knowledge, skills and experience to enable the person to provide assistance for SFRS in the carrying out by SFRS of the relevant function.”, and

(b) after subsection (3), add—

“(4) In this section, “relevant function” means a function conferred by or under any of sections 8 to 11, 13 and 61.”.