London Government Act 1963

32 Co-ordination of school and other health services in inner London

(1) The Inner London Education Authority and each respectively of the following councils, that is to say, the councils of the inner London boroughs and the Common Council, shall as soon as may be jointly prepare and submit to the Minister of Education and the Minister of Health for their approval a scheme with respect to—

(a) the joint use of professional staff, premises and equipment for the purposes of the health services falling to be provided by the local education authority and the local health authority respectively; and

(b) consultation as to the qualifications, experience, conditions of service and appointment of professional staff concerned with both those health services.

(2) If in the case of any of the councils aforesaid no such scheme as aforesaid has been submitted to the Ministers aforesaid under the foregoing subsection within such period as those Ministers think reasonable, those Ministers may themselves prepare such a scheme with respect to that council.

(3) In the case of any of the councils aforesaid—

(a) the Inner London Education Authority and the council concerned may from time to time jointly prepare and submit to the Ministers aforesaid for their approval, or

(b) the Ministers aforesaid may from time to time, after consultation with the said Authority and council, themselves prepare,

a further scheme with respect to the matters mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and any such further scheme may vary or revoke any scheme under subsection (1) or (2) of this section and any previous scheme under this subsection.

(4) The Ministers aforesaid shall act jointly for the purpose of approving any scheme submitted to them under subsection (1) or (3)(a) of this section and may approve the scheme either without modification or with such modifications as, after consultation with the Inner London Education Authority and the council concerned, they consider necessary or expedient; and after the scheme has been so approved, then, while that scheme remains in force, no professional staff to whom the scheme applies shall be appointed or employed except in accordance therewith.

(5) The Ministers aforesaid shall act jointly for the purpose of themselves preparing any scheme under subsection (2) or (3)(b) of this section, and the Inner London Education Authority and the council concerned shall comply with any such scheme while it remains in force.

(6) In this section the expression “professional staff” in relation to any scheme thereunder means medical officers, dental officers, nurses, health visitors and such other specialist staff as may be specified in that scheme.

(7) In its application to the Inner London Education Authority, section 54(4) of the Education Act 1944 shall have effect as if for the words “the council of any county district in the area of the authority ” there were substituted the words “the council of any inner London borough or the Common Council of the City of London ”,