Chapter 2: Other Provision Police and crime commissioners and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime Section 74: Participation of police and crime commissioners at certain local authority committees Background
Section 102 of the Local Government Act 1972 (‘LGA 1972’) sets out provisions about appointments to local authority committees, including the appointment of PCCs. Section 102 (9) LGA 1972 provides that a Police and Crime Commissioner is only to be represented on a committee discharging fire and rescue functions in so far as the business relates to those fire and rescue functions.
	There is a risk that this legislation may be interpreted more widely than intended, potentially resulting in PCCs being excluded from local authority committee meetings where the business of that meeting does not relate to the functions of a fire and rescue authority.