{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-and-rescue-services-national-framework-and-variation-of-combination-schemes-wales-order-2026/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-and-rescue-services-national-framework-and-variation-of-combination-schemes-wales-order-2026/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/64",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire and Rescue Services (National Framework and Variation of Combination Schemes) (Wales) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-and-rescue-services-national-framework-and-variation-of-combination-schemes-wales-order-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "fire and rescue services, wales\nMade 4 March 2026\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(2)\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 3(2) and (3)(a) and (c), 4(4), 21(6) and 60(2)(a) of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (“the 2004 Act”).\nIn accordance with section 4(5) of the 2004 Act, the Welsh Ministers have consulted with those authorities they consider likely to be affected and any other persons they consider appropriate in respect of the provision made in articles 3 to 5.\nIn accordance with section 21(5) of the 2004 Act, the Welsh Ministers have consulted fire and rescue authorities or persons considered to represent them, persons considered to represent employees of fire and rescue authorities and such other persons they consider appropriate in respect of the revisions to the Fire and Rescue National Framework for Wales brought into effect by article 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21. The functions under sections 3, 4 and 21 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously vested in the National Assembly for Wales by section 62 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/64/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:55:21.396650+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."
}