Policing and Crime Act 2017

4 Collaboration agreements: supplementary

(1) A collaboration agreement may, in particular, make provision about the use, for the purposes of the agreement, of a power of a party to the agreement to—

(a) make arrangements for the exercise of the party’s functions by another person, or

(b) exercise functions jointly with another person.

(2) A collaboration agreement may include provision for payments to be made by the parties to the agreement for the purposes of facilitating that agreement.

(3) A party to a collaboration agreement may do anything that is necessary or expedient for the purposes of facilitating the agreement.

(4) Subsection (3) is subject to any restriction imposed on a party by, or by virtue of, an enactment or rule of law.

(5) A collaboration agreement may not include provision for the delegation of a function where that function may not otherwise be delegated.

(6) The delegation of a function pursuant to a collaboration agreement does not affect the responsibility of any party to the agreement for the exercise of its functions.

(7) A collaboration agreement must make provision for a party to withdraw from the agreement where in the view of that party the agreement is no longer in the interests of its efficiency or effectiveness.

(8) A collaboration agreement may be—

(a) varied with the agreement of all of the parties to the agreement, or

(b) replaced by a subsequent collaboration agreement.