This Order provides for the creation of a fire and rescue authority under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c.21) for the area of the Northamptonshire County Council. The person who is for the time being the police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire is to be for the time being the new fire and rescue authority (article 3) and is to be known as the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire. The corporation sole created under that article is to be known as the Northamptonshire Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority (‘the Authority’).