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Policing and Crime Bill

This small amendment tries to clarify proposed new subsection 23C(5). As I understand it, the collaboration agreement can be entered into by either the police authority or the chief officer, in which case both sides have to consult the other. A police authority cannot enter a collaboration agreement without having consulted the chief officer, and a chief officer cannot enter into a collaborative agreement without the agreement of the police authority. If they all agree to the collaboration, that is fine—but what if they do not agree, to stop it? How does the consultation go again? The police authority says to the chief officer, "We don’t think this collaboration’s any good. It’s not working at all. We think that we ought to talk to the other authority and call it all off". The chief officer says, "It’s going absolutely fine. I don’t want this to stop". Or, the other way around, the chief officer who entered into it thinks it ought to stop, but the police authority does not think so. Where does the authority actually lie for terminating those agreements if there is a disagreement between one police authority and its chief officer?