Legislation – Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025
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Part 1Border security
Chapter 1The Border Security Commander
5Duties of cooperation etc
(1)
A partner authority must, so far as appropriate and reasonably practicable, cooperate with the Commander in the carrying out of the Commander’s functions.
(2)
The duty under subsection (1) extends only so far as the cooperation is compatible with the exercise of the partner authority’s other functions.
(3)
The Commander and a person to whom this subsection applies must put in place arrangements governing cooperation between the Commander and that person in support of the Commander’s functions.
(4)
Subsection (3) applies to—
(a)
the Director-General of the Security Service,
(b)
the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, and
(c)
the Director of GCHQ.