Wales: Supplementary
Section 142: Annual reports of Assembly
300.Section 142 places a duty on the Assembly to make an annual report or reports, of the way in which it has exercised its social care and health care functions in the Act, and its functions under the CSA 2000 in relation to the registration of independent health services and registered social care services in Wales, and its findings in the course of the exercise of those functions over the year.
Section 143: Use by the Assembly of information
301.Section 143 allows the Assembly to use information it obtains in exercising functions listed in subsection (2), namely its health and social care review functions under the Act and functions under the CSA 2000 and section 80 of the Children Act 1989 (inspection of children’s homes) for the purpose of exercising any other of those functions listed in subsection (2).
Section 144: Inquiries: Wales
302.Section 144 applies where the Assembly holds an inquiry into any matter connected with its social care functions (which are all its functions under the CSA 2000 which equate to those of the CSCI and the CHAI and all its other functions which equate to those of the CSCI). In the same way as is provided by sections 134 and 135 for inquiries in relation to the CHAI and the CSCI’s functions,subsections (2) and (3) of this section enable the Assembly to direct any inquiry, or part of an inquiry, to be held in private, and where the Assembly does not direct, the person holding the inquiry may decide.
Section 145: Co-operation between Assembly and CHAI
303.Section 145 places a duty on the CHAI and the Assembly to co-operate in order to ensure that their functions of reviewing and investigating health care under Part 2 of the Act are carried out efficiently and effectively.
