Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 1: Functions relating to serious violence Section 11 and Schedule 1: Specified authorities and local government areas
Subsection (1) introduces Schedule 1 which lists the specified authorities who are subject to the serious violence duty. The list includes local authorities, probation service providers, youth offending teams, clinical commissioning groups (in England), local health boards (in Wales), chief officers of police, and fire and rescue authorities.
	Subsection (4) defines a "local government area" (that is, the area in respect of which the serious violence duty in section 8 applies) as a district, a London borough, the City of London or the Isles of Scilly when in England, and as a county or county borough when in Wales.
	Subsection (7) confers a power on the Secretary of State, by regulations, to amend the list of specified authorities in Schedule 1. Such regulations may add, modify or remove an entry in an existing table as well as add a new table in that Schedule.