Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004

F1 Arrangements for obtaining the views of the community E+W+S

[F1 2 (1) Subsections (1), (1B), (2), (5A) and (5B) of section 96 of the Police Act 1996 (arrangements for obtaining the views of the community on policing) apply in relation to a relevant fire and rescue authority as they apply in relation to an elected local policing body, subject to sub-paragraph (2).

(2) As applied by sub-paragraph (1), those subsections have effect as if—

(a) the reference in subsection (1) to each police area were to each area of a relevant fire and rescue authority,

(b) in that subsection, for paragraphs (a) and (b) and the words following those paragraphs there were substituted “the views of people in that area about fire and rescue services”,

(c) in subsections (1B) and (5A) the references to a police area listed in Schedule 1 to that Act were to the area of a relevant fire and rescue authority,

(d) the reference in subsection (2) to the police area were to the area of the relevant fire and rescue authority, and

(e) the reference in that subsection to the chief officer of police for that police area were to the relevant chief constable.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A1, Sch. A2 inserted (31.1.2017 for specified purposes, 3.4.2017 in so far as not already in force) by Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), s. 183(1)(5)(e), Sch. 1 para. 13; S.I. 2017/399, reg. 2, Sch. para. 38

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. A2 excluded (8.5.2017) by The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Transfer of Police and Crime Commissioner Functions to the Mayor) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/470), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 20(c)