Part 4Health Board and local authority functions

Chapter 2Local authority functions

Co-operation and assistance

I130Co-operation with Health Boards and others

1

In providing services for a person under any of sections 25 to 27 of this Act, a local authority shall co-operate with any—

a

Health Boards;

b

Special Health Boards;

c

National Health Service trusts; or

d

voluntary organisations,

that appear to the authority to have an interest, power or duty mentioned in subsection (2) below.

F11A

If, in pursuance of an integration scheme prepared under section 1 or 2 of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, a local authority delegates the carrying out any of the functions conferred by sections 25 to 27 of this Act—

a

subsection (1) applies to the person to whom the functions are delegated as it applies to a local authority; and

b

the person to whom the functions are delegated must co-operate with the local authority if it appears to the person that the authority has an interest, power or duty mentioned in subsection (2)(b) below.

2

Such an interest, power or duty is—

a

an interest in the provision of services by the local authority under any of sections 25 to 27 of this Act; or

b

a power or duty to provide or secure the provision of services, or an interest in the provision of services,

for the person.