This section applies if the Secretary of State makes an order under section 4A.
The Secretary of State may make one or more schemes for the transfer of property, rights and liabilities from an existing fire and rescue authority ("the transferor") to the fire and rescue authority created by the order ("the transferee").
The things that may be transferred under a transfer scheme include—
property, rights and liabilities that could not otherwise be transferred;
property acquired, and rights and liabilities arising, after the making of the scheme;
criminal liabilities.
A transfer scheme may make supplementary, incidental, transitional and consequential provision and may in particular—
create rights, or impose liabilities, in relation to property or rights transferred;
make provision about the continuing effect of things done by the transferor in respect of anything transferred;
make provision about the continuation of things (including legal proceedings) in the process of being done by, on behalf of or in relation to the transferor in respect of anything transferred;
make provision for references to the transferor in an instrument or other document in respect of anything transferred to be treated as references to the transferee;
make provision for the shared ownership or use of property.
A transfer scheme may provide—
for the scheme to be modified by agreement after it comes into effect, and
for any such modifications to have effect from the date when the original scheme comes into effect.
In this section—
references to the transfer of property include the grant of a lease;
references to rights and liabilities include rights and liabilities under a contract of employment.