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.