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  Policing and Crime Bill - Schedule 1 - Consent of Fire Authority and Councils or Local People Before Police and Crime Commissioner Given Fire and Rescue Responsibilities
  
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  @ MP voted aye to require the consent of the relevant local councils and the fire authority, or the majority of people taking part in a referendum, before a Police and Crime Commissioner is given responsibility for a Fire and Rescue Service. 
  @ MP voted no against requiring the consent of the relevant local councils and the fire authority, or the majority of people taking part in a referendum, before a Police and Crime Commissioner is given responsibility for a Fire and Rescue Service. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the consent of the relevant local councils and the fire authority, or the majority of people taking part in a referendum, before a Police and Crime Commissioner is given responsibility for a Fire and Rescue Service. 
  
  MPs were considering the Policing and Crime Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  Amendment: 6, page 157, line 33, at end insertâ
  
  :â(4) An order under section 4A, whether modified or not by the Secretary of State, may only be made with either: consent of all of the relevant local authorities and relevant fire and rescue authority, or a majority vote by local people through referendum.â
  
  The amendment was accompanied by the following explanatory note:
  
  :This amendment would ensure that a PCC can only take over a Fire and Rescue Service with the approval of local people or their local representatives.
  
  
  The amendment would have added the above subclause to paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 of the Bill. The order under section 4A referred is an order by The Secretary of State under the provision titled: ''Power to provide for police and crime commissioner to be fire and rescue authority''. Section 4A is a proposed new section for the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 contained within Schedule 1 of the Policing and Crime Bill. 
  
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