{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Collaboration agreements",
  "text": "(1) A collaboration agreement may be made by—\n(a) one or more persons within a paragraph of subsection (2), and\n(b) one or more persons within another paragraph of that subsection.\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) an ambulance trust in England,\n(b) a fire and rescue body in England, and\n(c) a police body in England.\n(3) A collaboration agreement is an agreement in writing that sets out how the parties to the agreement will work together in discharging their functions.\n(4) Subsection (1) does not prevent a person other than a person listed in subsection (2) from being a party to a collaboration agreement.\n(5) This section is subject to section 3 (collaboration agreements: specific restrictions).\n(6) Section 4 makes further provision about collaboration agreements.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 183"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:52.204895+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."
}