Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

Other provision about the Groups as continued

6.  The Department may pay to members of a Local Commissioning Group who are not employees or officers of the Department or the Regional Business Services Organisation such remuneration and allowances as the Department may determine.

7.  In the 2009 Act—

(a) section 2(3)(h) (duty of Department to monitor and hold to account) applies in relation to Local Commissioning Groups;

(b) the duty in section 5 (preparation of framework document) applies as if a Local Commissioning Group were a health and social care body;

(c) section 6 (power of Department to give directions) applies in relation to Local Commissioning Groups;

(d) a Local Commissioning Group is a relevant body for the purposes of section 15 (RBSO support services);

(e) sections 17 to 19 (Patient and Client Council and public involvement) apply to Local Commissioning Groups.

8.—(1) The Department may give guidance to a Local Commissioning Group as to the carrying out by the Group of any of its functions.

(2) It is the duty of a Local Commissioning Group to have regard to any guidance given to it under sub-paragraph (1).

(3) Section 29(3) of the 2009 Act applies to guidance given under sub-paragraph (1).

9.  References in the following provisions to a health and social care body are to be treated as including a Local Commissioning Group—

(a) Article 67 of the 1972 Order (duty of various bodies to co-operate with one another);

(b) section 3(8) of the Health and Social Care (Control of Data Processing) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (code of practice on processing of information);

(c) sections 14(2)(a) and 15(1) of the Public Services Ombudsman Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (matters which the Ombudsman may investigate).