SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 11 Police and Fire Services

Section 37.

Police

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Fire services

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(1)

F2The F3London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority shall be the fire authority for Greater London; and the fire and civil defence authority established under Part IV of this Act for each metropolitan county shall be the fire authority for that county.

(2)

F4References in the M1Fire Services Acts 1947 to 1959 and in any other enactment to a fire authority, or to a fire authority constituted by or for the purposes of the Fire Services Act 1947, shall be construed in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above.

(3)

In section 4 of the said Act of 1947 for the words “the council of every county” there shall be substituted the words “the council of every non-metropolitan county”.

(4)

In the M2Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act 1865 the references to the Metropolitan Board of Works (which, by virtue of section 48(3) of the M3London Government Act 1963, are to be construed as references to the Greater London Council) shall be construed as references to the F5London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.

Explosives, petroleum etc.

3

In paragraph (3) of section 67 of the M4Explosives Act 1875 (local authorities for the purposes of that Act) after the words “Outside Greater London” there shall be inserted the words “and a metropolitan county” and after that paragraph there shall be inserted—

“(3A)

In a metropolitan county, the fire authority; and”

4

In section 2(1) of the M5Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (local authorities granting petroleum licences) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—

“(a)

in Greater London or a metropolitan county, the fire authority;”

5

The functions of a local authority under section 73 of the M6Public Health Act 1961 (derelict petroleum tanks) shall be functions—

(a)

in Greater London or a metropolitan county, of the F6fire authority F6fire and rescue authority ;

(b)

elsewhere, of the county council,

and references in that section, and in the provisions of that Act applied by it, to a local authority shall be construed accordingly.

6

In section 9 of the M7Celluloid and Cinematograph Film Act 1922 at the end of the definition of “local authority” there shall be inserted the words “and in a metropolitan county means the fire authority”.