Regulation 3 Protection from personal liability

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 3(1)(a) words substituted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 44(3)
reg. 3(1) words substituted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 44(4)(b)
reg. 3(1)(b) words substituted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 44(4)(a)
reg. 3(2) words substituted by Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) 2004 art. 44(4)(c)

(1)

Where, by virtue of section 18(3) of the Local Government Act 1992, an order under section 17 of that Act provides, or has provided—

(a)

that, subject to any combination scheme, a district is to become the area of a fire authority for the purposes of the 1947 Act; or

(b)

that, for the purposes of the making of any combination scheme, the area of a district is to be treated as an area which would become the area of a fire authority by virtue of the order;

paragraph (2) below shall apply in relation to a combined fire authority constituted by a combination scheme which includes such an area.

(2)

A combined fire authority constituted by such a combination scheme shall, for the purposes of section 265 of the Public Health Act 1875^f1 and section 39 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976^f2 (protection of members and officers etc. from personal liability), be treated as if it were a local authority.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1875 c. 55.
f2: 1976 c. 57.