Explanatory note

This Order specifies Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities and Assistant Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities as offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

This Order also partially revokes the Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1127). It revokes the reference in the Schedule to that Order to the offices of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland and Assistant Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland.

Subsections (1)(a), (1)(b) and (2) of section 43 of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5) set out the arrangements for the appointment to the offices of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities and Assistant Inspector of Fire and Rescue Authorities, respectively.