Part 2: Local Democracy and Devolution Police and crime and fire and rescue functions Section 34: Exercise of fire and rescue functions Background
This provision enables the Secretary of State to make regulations providing for the mayor of a CCA who has been conferred the functions of the police and crime commissioner and the fire and rescue service, to delegate fire and rescue functions to the chief constable of the police force for their area and for the chief constable to further delegate these functions to both police and fire and rescue personnel; i.e. the single employer model.