# Policing and Crime Act 2017, Section 4: Collaboration agreements: supplementary


(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—
(a) make arrangements for the exercise of the party's functions by another person, or
(b) exercise functions jointly with another person.
(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.
(3) A party to a collaboration agreement may do anything that is necessary or expedient for the purposes of facilitating the agreement.
(4) Subsection (3) is subject to any restriction imposed on a party by, or by virtue of, an enactment or rule of law.
(5) A collaboration agreement may not include provision for the delegation of a function where that function may not otherwise be delegated.
(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.
(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.
(8) A collaboration agreement may be—
(a) varied with the agreement of all of the parties to the agreement, or
(b) replaced by a subsequent collaboration agreement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/3/section/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/policing-and-crime-act-2017/section-4
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