The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023

Police, Fire and Crime Panel: scrutiny of the community risk management plan E+W

47.—(1) Before issuing a community risk management plan or varying the Combined Authority’s priorities and objectives set out in a community risk management plan, the Mayor must—

(a) consult the chief fire officer in preparing the draft plan, or the draft variation;

(b) send the draft priorities and objectives, or the draft variation of the priorities and objectives, to the Police, Fire and Crime Panel;

(c) have regard to any report or recommendations made by the Police, Fire and Crime Panel in relation to the draft priorities and objectives, in accordance with section 28(3)(1)of the PRSR Act; and

(d) as soon as reasonably practicable, give the Police, Fire and Crime Panel a response to any such report or recommendations, and publish the response in such manner as the Mayor considers appropriate.

(2) In complying with paragraph (1)(b), the Mayor must ensure that the Police, Fire and Crime Panel has a reasonable amount of time to consider the draft priorities and objectives, or the draft variation of the priorities and objectives, and to produce its report or recommendations.

(3) The Mayor must consult the chief fire officer before issuing or varying a community risk management plan if, and to the extent that, the priorities and objectives in the plan or variation are different from the draft prepared in accordance with paragraph (1).

(4) The Mayor must keep the priorities and objectives in the community risk management plan under review and, in particular, review them in the light of any report or recommendations made to the Mayor by the Police, Fire and Crime Panel under section 28(4) of the PRSR Act.

(5) If the Mayor issues or varies a community risk management plan, the Mayor must—

(a) send a copy of the issued community risk management plan, or the variation, to the chief fire officer; and

(b) publish a copy of the issued plan, or the variation, in such manner as the Mayor considers appropriate.

(6) The duty under paragraph (5) to send or publish a copy of the variation may instead be satisfied by sending or publishing a copy of the plan as varied.

(7) In this article, “priorities and objectives” means the Combined Authority’s priorities and objectives in connection with the discharge of the Combined Authority’s functions as a fire and rescue authority, as required to be set out in the community risk management plan.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 47 in force at 20.12.2023, see art. 1(2)

(1)

Section 28 was amended by paragraph 89 of Schedule 1 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3).