{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-and-rescue-services-act-2004/schedule-ZA1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/21",
  "legislation_title": "Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-and-rescue-services-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/ZA1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“community risk management plan” means a document issued by an FRA’s mayor which—\n(a)is prepared and published in accordance with the Fire and Rescue National Framework, and\n(b)sets out for the period covered by the document—\n(i)the mayoral FRA’s priorities and objectives in connection with the discharge of its functions as a fire and rescue authority, and\n(ii)an assessment of all foreseeable fire and rescue related risks that could affect the mayoral FRA’s area;\n“FRA’s mayor” means the mayor for the area of a mayoral FRA;\n“mayoral FRA” means a mayoral combined authority or mayoral CCA which is a fire and rescue authority by virtue of section 1(2)(f) or (g);\n“priorities and objectives” means a mayoral FRA’s priorities and objectives in connection with the discharge of its functions as a fire and rescue authority which it is required to set out in the community risk management plan;\n“relevant scrutiny body”, in relation to a mayoral FRA, has the meaning determined in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) to (5).\n(2) The “relevant scrutiny body” is the overview and scrutiny committee of the mayoral combined authority or mayoral CCA which is the fire and rescue authority.\n(3) Where the authority or CCA has more than one overview and scrutiny committee, the authority or CCA must decide which of the committees is to exercise the functions of the relevant scrutiny body.\n(4) But sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) do not apply in a case where—\n(a) the FRA’s mayor also exercises functions of police and crime commissioner in relation to the area for which the mayoral FRA is the fire and rescue authority, and\n(b) immediately before the mayoral FRA became the fire and rescue authority for that area, an authority created by an order under section 4A was the fire and rescue authority for that area.\n(5) In that case, the “relevant scrutiny body” is the police and crime panel for that area (see, in particular, section 28 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 as it has effect in accordance with paragraph 10 of Schedule 10A to that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. ZA1 inserted (29.6.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(5), Sch. 25 para. 4(2) (with s. 102)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/21/schedule/ZA1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:04.223984+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."
}