Article 4 Fire services

(1)

Each Berkshire district shall, subject to any combination scheme under the Fire Services Act 1947^f1 (“the 1947 Act”), become the area of a fire authority for the purposes of that Act.

(2)

For the purposes of the making of a combination scheme with respect to Berkshire before the reorganisation date in accordance with section 10 of the 1947 Act (power to make schemes in advance of alterations to local government areas), section 5(2) of that Act shall have effect, in relation to Berkshire, as if—

(a)

in paragraphs (a) and (d) of that subsection, for “the constituent authorities”, wherever those words occur, there were substituted “the council of the county of Berkshire”; and

(b)

in paragraphs (e) and (f) of that subsection, for “any of the constituent authorities” there were substituted “the council of the county of Berkshire”.

(3)

Section 10 of the 1947 Act shall have effect, in relation to Berkshire, as if after the word “but” there were inserted the words “, except so far as it relates to the constitution of an authority as the fire authority for the combined area constituted by the scheme and the performance by that authority of any functions necessary for bringing the scheme into full operation on that date,”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1947 c. 41; section 10 of this Act is amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1992.