Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5)

Part 2 S Fire and rescue services

[F1 CHAPTER 8B S Inspection]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 2 Ch. 8B inserted (1.1.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 so far as not already in force) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 119, 129(2); S.S.I. 2012/333, art. 2, Sch. (with Sch. 2 paras. 2(11) 3); S.I. 2013/51, art. 2

Training S

48 Central institution and other centres for education and training S

(1) The Scottish Ministers may establish and maintain a central training institution for one or more of the purposes mentioned in subsection (2).

(2) Those purposes are—

(a) the provision of education and training to employees of relevant authorities;

(b) the provision of advice and assistance to relevant authorities in connection with the provision of such education and training;

(c) the supervision and regulation of the provision of such education and training;

(d) the provision of education and training to persons who provide (or are to provide) such education and training;

(e) the provision of education or training to persons who are not employees of relevant authorities in matters in relation to which relevant authorities have functions;

(f) the provision of advice and assistance in connection with the provision of such education and training.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may make arrangements with a relevant authority for a centre established under section 15 to be used for one or more of the purposes mentioned in subsection (2).