This Order varies the Bedfordshire Fire Services Combination Scheme (as set out in the Schedule to the Bedfordshire Fire Services (Combined Scheme) Order 1996), with the effect that the Bedfordshire and Luton Combined Fire Authority becomes known as the Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Authority. It makes continuity provisions to ensure that no right or obligation of any person is affected, nor any instrument invalidated, as a result of the change in name, and provides that references to the previous name are to be construed as references to the new name.