Article 5B Police, Fire and Crime Panel: scrutiny of the local risk planF1

Before issuing a local risk plan or varying the GMCA’s priorities and objectives set out in a local risk plan, the Mayor must—

In complying with paragraph (1)(b), the Mayor must ensure that the Police, Fire and Crime Panel has a reasonable amount of time to consider the draft priorities and objectives, or the draft variation of the priorities and objectives, and to produce its report or recommendations.

The Mayor must consult the chief fire officer before issuing or varying a local risk plan if, and to the extent that, the priorities and objectives in the plan or variation are different from the draft prepared in accordance with paragraph (1).

The Mayor must keep the priorities and objectives in the local risk plan under review and, in particular, review them in the light of any report or recommendations made to the Mayor by the Police, Fire and Crime Panel under section 28(4) of the PRSR Act 2011.

If the Mayor issues or varies a local risk plan, the Mayor must—

The duty under paragraph (5) to send or publish a copy of the variation may instead be satisfied by sending or publishing a copy of the plan as varied.

In this article “priorities and objectives” means the GMCA’s priorities and objectives in connection with the discharge of the GMCA’s functions as a fire and rescue authority, as required to be set out in the local risk plan.