Part 4 Health Board and local authority functions

Chapter 2 Local authority functions

Duty to inquire into individual cases

34 Inquiries under section 33: co-operation

(1) This section applies where a local authority are required by section 33(1) of this Act to cause inquiries to be made into a person’s case.

(2) Where it appears to the local authority that the assistance of any of the persons mentioned in subsection (3) below—

(a) is necessary for the purposes of the inquiries; or

(b) would assist the inquiries,

the authority may request that person to provide the assistance specified in the request.

(3) Those persons are—

(a) the Commission;

(b) the Public Guardian;

(c) the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care;

(d) a Health Board; and

(e) a National Health Service trust.

(4) Where—

(a) a person receives a request under subsection (2) above; and

(b) complying with the request—

(i) would be compatible with the discharge of the person’s functions (whether under any enactment or otherwise); and

(ii) would not prejudice unduly the discharge by the person of any of those functions,

the person shall comply with the request.