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.