{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2013/article-2", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2013/article-2.json", "legislation": "uksi/2013/602", "legislation_title": "The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2013", "path": "article/2", "kind": "article", "number": "2", "heading": "Interpretation", "text": "In this Order—\n“1967 Act” means the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;\n“1968 Act” means the Firearms Act 1968;\n“1987 Act” means the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987;\n“1988 Act” means the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988;\n“1996 Act” means the Police Act 1996;\n“2000 Act” means the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000;\n“2004 Act” means the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004;\n“2005 Act” means the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005;\n“2006 Order” means the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006;\n“2006 Act” means the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006;\n“2012 Act” means the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012;\n“2004 Act authority” means—\n(a) a fire and rescue authority determined under section 1 of the 2004 Act;\n(b) a fire and rescue service for a combined area constituted by order under section 2 of the 2004 Act;\n(c) a combined authority constituted by a scheme to which section 4 of the 2004 Act applies;\n“2004 Act function” means a function conferred by or under any of sections 7 to 9 and 11 of the 2004 Act;\n“board function” means a function conferred by or under any of articles 5 to 8 of the 2006 Order;\n“customs revenue functions” has the meaning given in section 7(9) of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009;\n“customs revenue official” means a person designated by the Director of Border Revenue under section 11 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009;\n“Director of Border Revenue” means the official designated by the Secretary of State under section 6 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009;\n“enforcement functions” includes, in particular, reference to—\n(d) powers of entry;\n(e) power to search persons or property;\n(f) power to seize or detain property;\n(g) power to arrest persons;\n(h) power to detain persons; and\n(i) powers to examine persons or otherwise to obtain information (including powers to take fingerprints or to acquire other personal data);\n“fire and rescue officer” has the meaning given by article 2(2) of the 2006 Order;\n“general customs functions” has the meaning given in section 1(8) of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009;\n“general customs official” means a person designated by the Secretary of State under section 3 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009;\n“immigration officer” means a person appointed under paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Immigration Act 1971;\n“Northern Ireland Board” means the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board;\n“Scottish chief officer” means a chief constable of a police force maintained under section 2 of the 1967 Act.\n“SFRS” means the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service;\n“SFRS function” means a function conferred by or under any of sections 9 to 11 and 13 of the 2005 Act;\n“SOCA” means the Serious Organised Crime Agency;\n“the Commissioner” means the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner; and\n“the relevant day” is the day on which this Order comes into force.", "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.4.2013, see art. 1(2)" }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "1967 c.77." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "1968 c.27." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "1987 c.4." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "1988 c.45." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f5", "text": "1996 c.16." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f6", "text": "2000 c.23." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f7", "text": "2004 c.21." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f8", "text": "2005 asp 5." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f9", "text": "S.I. 2006/1254 (N.I. 9)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f10", "text": "2006 asp 10." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f11", "text": "2012 asp 8." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f12", "text": "There are amendments to section 2 not relevant to this Order." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f13", "text": "There are amendments to section 4 not relevant to this Order." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f14", "text": "2009 c.11." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f15", "text": "Section 1(8) has been amended by the Treaty of Lisbon (Change in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), Part 2, article 6(2)(a)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f16", "text": "1971 c.77. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 has been amended by the Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (c.17), Schedule 3, paragraph 3 and by S.I. 1993/1813, Schedule 5, paragraph 1(a)." } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "words inserted", "affecting": "ukpga/2025/28", "affecting_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025" } ], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/602/article/2", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:00:56.671742+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." }