Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 1: Functions relating to serious violence Section 9: Powers to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence
Subsection (1) permits two or more specified authorities to collaborate and plan with each other to prevent and reduce serious violence in a relevant area. "Relevant area" is defined (in subsection (13)) as an area including all or part of a local government area or all or part of more than one local government areas (regardless of whether it is also a specified authority for the other area or areas). This provision will also enable specified authorities to work across boundaries where necessary in order to take a co-coordinated approach to serious violence that operates across boundaries. This could be used, for example, in tackling "county lines" activity which often spans more than one local government area.
	Subsections (2) to (12) contain analogous provisions to those in section 8(2) to (12) which will apply where two or more specified authorities have chosen to collaborate to deliver the serious violence duty.