Part VIII Functions

Miscellaneous functions

147 Fire services.

1

Subject to the provisions of the M1Fire Services Act 1947 as amended by this section, the fire authority for the purposes of the Fire Services Acts 1947 to 1959 shall be a regional or islands council.

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For section 36(3) (administration scheme) of the said Act of 1947 there shall be substituted the following subsection—

3

lt shall be the duty of the councils of the regions and islands areas comprised in either of the combined areas set out in the Table at the end of this subsection to prepare and submit to the Secretary of State, not later than 1st January 1975 or such later date as the Secretary of State may in special circumstances allow, a scheme (hereafter referred to as “administration scheme”) for the provision in the combined area of the services required by section 1 of this Act, and the Secretary of State may by order approve any scheme so submitted to him.

Table

Combined area

Police areas comprised

South-eastern

Borders and Lothian

Northern

Highland and the Islands Areas.

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4

F2 every fire authority, in respect of whose area or combined area the Secretary of State has approved or made an administration scheme under section 36 of the said Act of 1947, shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of State for his approval an establishment scheme for the combined area under the said section 19, and the Secretary of State may approve the scheme as submitted to him or subject to such modifications as he may direct.

5

The following further amendments shall be made to section 36 of the said Act of 1947—

a

for any reference to counties and burghs or counties or burghs there shall be substituted respectively references to regions and islands areas or regions or islands areas;

b

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In section 38(1) of the said Act of 1947 (interpretation), after the definition of “appointed day” there shall be inserted the following definition—

“combined area”, in relation to Scotland, means an area for which a combined fire brigade is established by an administration scheme under section 36 of this Act;

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Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1947 (combined areas in Scotland) shall cease to have effect.

C18

Section 7(2) of the M2Fire Services Act 1959 (establishment schemes) shall cease to have effect.