Part 1Emergency services collaboration
CHAPTER 1Collaboration agreements
4Collaboration 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.