{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-fire-and-rescue-services-schemes-variation-wales-order-2009/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-fire-and-rescue-services-schemes-variation-wales-order-2009/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/2849",
  "legislation_title": "The Combined Fire and Rescue Services Schemes (Variation) (Wales) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-fire-and-rescue-services-schemes-variation-wales-order-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES, WALES\nMade 24 October 2009\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 27 October 2009\nComing into force 1 December 2009\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by sections 4(4), 60 and 62 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 and now vested in them.\nIn accordance with section 4(5) of that Act the Welsh Ministers have consulted with the specified authorities and any other persons they consider appropriate and in accordance with section 4(7)(a) of that Act they have obtained the agreement of all combined and other appropriate authorities to the making of this Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The powers of the National Assembly for Wales are now vested in the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 4(5) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 specifies the bodies and persons who are to be consulted."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 4(6) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 requires that an inquiry be held before an order is made under section 4(4) varying or revoking a combination scheme. Section 4(7) describes the circumstances when an inquiry may be avoided, one of which is that the bodies specified in section 4(7)(a) agree to the revocation or variation."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/2849/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:55:13.817314+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}