{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-strikes-minimum-service-levels-fire-and-rescue-services-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-strikes-minimum-service-levels-fire-and-rescue-services-england-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348257397",
  "legislation_title": "The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Fire and Rescue Services) (England) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-strikes-minimum-service-levels-fire-and-rescue-services-england-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992;\n“the FRS 2004” means the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004;\n“the FRA (England) services” means the services specified in regulation 3(2);\n“emergency incident response” means any one or more of the following services—\n(a) extinguishing fires;\n(b) protecting life or property in the event of fires;\n(c) rescuing people, or protecting people from serious harm, in the event of a road traffic accident;\n(d) discharging functions conferred by an order under section 9 of the FRS 2004 (emergencies);\n(e) taking action in response to, or for the purpose of enabling action to be taken in response to, an event or situation of a kind mentioned in section 11(2) of the FRS 2004;\n(f) the management, direction or control of any of the services mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e);\n“English FRA” means a fire and rescue authority, within the meaning of Part 1 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, for an area in England;\n“English FRA contractor” means a person who provides fire and rescue services on behalf of an English FRA pursuant to a contract under which those services are to be provided other than during a strike.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the Fire and Rescue Services (Emergencies) (England) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/735)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See, in particular, section 1, which was amended by S.I. 2017/469 and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, and paragraph 111 of Schedule 2, to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348257397/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:41:31.867266+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."
}