{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-scotland-act-2005/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-scotland-act-2005/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/5",
  "legislation_title": "Fire (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Charging",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by order (a “charging order”) authorise SFRS to charge a person of a description specified in the order for any action so specified taken by SFRS.\n(2) A charging order may authorise a charge to be imposed on, or recovered from, a person other than the person in respect of whom action is taken by SFRS.\n(3) A charging order may authorise charging for—\n(a) extinguishing fires;\n(b) protecting life; or\n(c) protecting property in the event of fires,\nonly in respect of action taken by SFRS at sea beyond the low water mark.\n(4) Where SFRS is authorised by a charging order to charge for taking action of a particular description and it decides to do so—\n(a) the amount of the charge shall be set by SFRS;\n(b) different amounts may be charged in different circumstances (and SFRS may charge nothing).\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) The references in subsection (3) to “sea” include–\n(a) that part of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom which is not adjacent to Scotland; and\n(b) sea beyond the territorial sea of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(a)(i), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(a)(ii), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(b), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(c), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(d)(i), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(4) inserted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(d)(ii), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), ss. 110(d)(iii), 129(2); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 16(5)(6) repealed (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), s. 129(2), Sch. 8 Pt. 2; S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 16(7) inserted (2.8.2005) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2060), arts. 1(2)(b), 2(2); S.S.I. 2005/392, art. 2(c)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 wholly in force at 2.8.2005; s. 16 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 90; s. 16 in force for certain purposes at 6.4.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/207, art. 3; s. 16 in force at 2.8.2005 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2005/392, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/5/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:28.643565+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."
}