Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 2: Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews Section 31: Delegating functions
Subsections (1) and (2) provide a power for the Secretary of State to make regulations enabling the relevant review partners to act jointly to delegate one or more of the functions specified in the regulations (which may be some or all of a review partners functions under sections 28 and 29 relating to a review or a report on the review) to either one of themselves, or another person. Such regulations could enable relevant review partners to decide one review partner or one individual should conduct the review and / or author the report on behalf of all the relevant review partners.
	Subsections (3) and (4) provide a further power for the Secretary of State to make regulations enabling a county council and a district council for an area that is within the area of the county council, to agree to delegate one or all of the functions specified in the regulations (which may be some or all of the functions of a review partner under sections 24 to 29) to one of them. Such regulations could enable county and district councils for the same area to agree that one acts on behalf of the other in respect of one or more of the functions of a review partner in sections 24 to 29.