## First meeting of the Authority 

15.  The first meeting of the Authority must be— 

(a) held as soon as is practicable, and 

(b) convened by the clerk to the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority. 

## Quorum requirement of meetings 

16.  At a meeting of the Authority the quorum is one half of the total number of members of the Authority, or such greater number of members as the Authority may determine, including at least one member by any two of the constituent authorities. 

## Application of general provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 

17.  Sections 85(1), (2) and (3), 99 (in so far as it relates to Part 6 of Schedule 12), 101 to 103, 106, 120, 121 and 123 of, and Part 6 of Schedule 12 to, the Local Government Act 1972( a ) apply to the Authority and its members as if references in those provisions to a principal council or a local authority were references to the Authority. 

## Officers and employees of the Authority 

## PART 4 

## Continuity of employment and transfer of employment, rights, powers, duties and liabilities 

18. —(1) Subject to paragraph 19, the contract of employment of any person employed by the existing authorities immediately before 1st April 2021 shall have effect on or after 1st April 2021 as if originally made between the person so employed and the Authority. 

(2) All of the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the existing authorities under or in connection with any such contract are transferred to the Authority. 

(3) Any act or omission before 1st April 2021, in relation to the transfer of that contract, is deemed to have been an act or omission in relation to the Authority. 

## Employee objection to employment by the Authority 

19.  Where an employee informs the existing authorities that they object to becoming employed by the Authority– 

(a) The employee’s contract of employment and any rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with it do not transfer under paragraph 18(1) and (2); 

(b) the employee’s contract of employment with the existing authorities is terminated on 1st April 2021, and 

(c) the employee is not be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed by either of the existing authorities. 

