The Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995

Fire Services

14.—(1) The area of each transferee authority shall, subject to any combination scheme under the Fire Services Act 1947 (“the 1947 Act”)(1), become the area of a fire authority for the purposes of that Act.

(2) For the purposes of the making of a combination scheme with respect to the areas of the transferee authorities before the reorganisation date in accordance with section 10 of the 1947 Act (power to make schemes in advance of alterations to local government areas), section 5(2) of that Act shall have effect, in relation to the transferee authorities, as if—

(a) in paragraphs (a) and (d) of that subsection, for “the constituent authorities”, wherever those words occur, there were substituted “the council of the county of Avon”; and

(b) in paragraphs (e) and (f) of that subsection, for “any of the constituent authorities” there were substituted “the council of the county of Avon”.

(3) Section 10 of the 1947 Act shall have effect, in relation to the transferee authorities, as if after the word “but” there were inserted the words “, except so far as it relates to the constitution of an authority as the fire authority for the combined area constituted by the scheme and the performance by that authority of any functions necessary for bringing the scheme into full operation on that date,”.

(1)

1947 c. 41.; section 10 of this Act is amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1992.