Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014

29 Requirement to prepare strategic plans

(1) The integration authority for the area of a local authority must prepare strategic plans in accordance with this section.

(2) A strategic plan is a document—

(a) setting out the arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions for the area of the local authority over the period of the plan,

(b) setting out how those arrangements are intended to achieve, or contribute to achieving, the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and

(c) including such other material as the integration authority thinks fit.

(3) The provision required to be included in a strategic plan by virtue of subsection (2)(a) is to include provision—

(a) dividing the area of the local authority into two or more localities, and

(b) setting out separately arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions in relation to each such locality.

(4) If the functions of the integration authority are to be delegated to the authority before the day prescribed under section 9(3) or, as the case may be, section 15(2), the first strategic plan must specify the day on which functions are to be delegated to the authority.

(5) The first strategic plan of an integration authority is to be prepared before the integration start day.

(6) In this section, “integration start day” means—

(a) in relation to an integration authority which is an integration joint board, the day on which functions are delegated to the authority by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 9(3),

(b) in relation to any other integration authority, the day on which functions are delegated by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 15(2) to, or to the constituent authorities of, the integration authority.