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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-fire-and-crime-commissioner-for-staffordshire-fire-and-rescue-authority-order-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/696",
  "legislation_title": "The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire (Fire and Rescue Authority) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-fire-and-crime-commissioner-for-staffordshire-fire-and-rescue-authority-order-2018",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision (see article 3) for the creation of a new fire and rescue authority under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21) for the areas of the city of Stoke-on-Trent Council and Staffordshire County Council. The person who is for the time being the police and crime commissioner for Staffordshire is to be for the time being that new fire and rescue authority. The new authority will be known as the Staffordshire Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority. The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Fire Authority is abolished by article 12 of the Order.\nArticles 4 to 9 of the Order set out the framework for how the Staffordshire Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority may exercise its functions. In particular article 5 sets out the functions that must be retained by the Authority and articles 6 and 8 set out functions that the Authority may delegate only to their deputy police and crime commissioner or chief fire officer.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/696/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:57.798749+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."
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