Fire Services Act, 1981
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Transfer of staff and property to fire authorities. |
17.—(1) This section applies to a body being the corporation of a borough or the council of an urban district which, on the commencement of section 9 , does not become a fire authority. | |
(2) On the commencement of section 9 , every officer, servant or other person who, immediately before such commencement, was engaged by a body to which this section applies solely in the performance of functions of a kind conferred by this Act on a particular fire authority shall, unless that body and that officer, servant or other person otherwise agree, become an officer or servant or be engaged by that fire authority on the terms and conditions applicable to his former employment or engagement. | ||
(3) On the commencement of section 9 , all real and personal property (including choses in action) which, immediately before such commencement, was vested in a body to which this section applies and was used solely for the purposes of functions conferred by this Act on a particular fire authority shall, unless that body and that fire authority otherwise agree, stand vested in that fire authority without any conveyance or assignment. | ||
(4) A body to which this section applies may issue a certificate under the hand of its town clerk in respect of specified property certifying, as it thinks proper, that that property vested or did not vest under this section and the certificate shall be conclusive. | ||
(5) Section 12 of the Finance Act, 1895 , shall not apply to the vesting of property under this section. | ||
(6) Where, by virtue of an order of the Minister under section 9 (2), a body ceases on a specified day to be a fire authority, this section shall apply to that body with effect from that day and the preceding provisions of this section shall apply accordingly subject to such modifications and ancillary provisions as the Minister considers necessary and provides for in the order. |