Section 5A: Powers of certain fire and rescue authorities

Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 · 2004 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Fire and rescue authorities

A relevant fire and rescue authority may do—

anything it considers appropriate for the purposes of the carrying-out of any of its functions (its "functional purposes"),
anything it considers appropriate for purposes incidental to its functional purposes,
anything it considers appropriate for purposes indirectly incidental to its functional purposes through any number of removes,
anything it considers to be connected with—
any of its functions, or
anything it may do under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), and
for a commercial purpose anything which it may do under any of paragraphs (a) to (d) otherwise than for a commercial purpose.

A relevant fire and rescue authority's power under subsection (1) is in addition to, and is not limited by, the other powers of the authority.

In this section " relevant fire and rescue authority " means a fire and rescue authority that is—

a metropolitan county fire and rescue authority,
the London Fire Commissioner,
constituted by a scheme under section 2, ...
constituted by a scheme to which section 4 applies , or
created by an order under section 4A.

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