Part 1Public health responsibilities
Local authorities
I2I15Designation of competent persons by local authorities
1
Each local authority must designate a sufficient number of persons for the purpose of exercising, on behalf of the authority, the functions relating to protection of public health mentioned in subsection (3).
2
A person designated under subsection (1) is a “local authority competent person”.
3
The functions referred to in subsection (1) are—
a
the functions conferred on a local authority competent person by virtue of this Act; and
b
any functions conferred on such a competent person by virtue of any other enactment.
4
The Scottish Ministers may prescribe—
a
the persons or classes of person who may be designated as local authority competent persons;
b
the qualifications which such persons must have;
c
the training which such persons must have undertaken;
d
such other requirements as to competency which such persons must meet as Ministers consider appropriate; and
e
such other matters relating to the terms and conditions of the designation of persons as competent persons as Ministers consider appropriate.
5
Regulations under subsection (4) may provide that such functions of local authority competent persons as are prescribed may be exercised only by competent persons who—
a
have such qualifications;
b
have undertaken such training; or
c
meet such other requirements as to competency,
as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate in relation to those functions.