{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/3",
  "legislation_title": "Policing and Crime Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Collaboration agreements: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) A collaboration agreement may, in particular, make provision about the use, for the purposes of the agreement, of a power of a party to the agreement to—\n(a) make arrangements for the exercise of the party's functions by another person, or\n(b) exercise functions jointly with another person.\n(2) A collaboration agreement may include provision for payments to be made by the parties to the agreement for the purposes of facilitating that agreement.\n(3) A party to a collaboration agreement may do anything that is necessary or expedient for the purposes of facilitating the agreement.\n(4) Subsection (3) is subject to any restriction imposed on a party by, or by virtue of, an enactment or rule of law.\n(5) A collaboration agreement may not include provision for the delegation of a function where that function may not otherwise be delegated.\n(6) The delegation of a function pursuant to a collaboration agreement does not affect the responsibility of any party to the agreement for the exercise of its functions.\n(7) A collaboration agreement must make provision for a party to withdraw from the agreement where in the view of that party the agreement is no longer in the interests of its efficiency or effectiveness.\n(8) A collaboration agreement may be—\n(a) varied with the agreement of all of the parties to the agreement, or\n(b) replaced by a subsequent collaboration agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}