This section provides that a partner authority has a duty, so far as appropriate and reasonably practicable, to cooperate with the Commander in the carrying out of the Commander’s functions (subsection (1)).
	The duty of cooperation extends only so far as the cooperation is compatible with the exercise of the partner authority’s other functions (subsection (2)).
	Subsections (3) and (4) require the Commander, the Director General of the Security Service, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service and the Director of GCHQ, to put in place arrangements governing cooperation between the Commander and those persons in support of the Commander’s functions.
Part 1: Border Security Chapter 1: The Border Security Commander Section 5: Duties of cooperation etc