(1)Regulations must make provision about carrying out needs assessments.
(2)Regulations under this section must make provision for the review of needs assessments, and may, for example, specify—
(a)the persons who may request a review of an assessment (on their own behalf or on behalf of another person);
(b)the circumstances in which a local authority—
(i)may refuse to comply with a request for a review of an assessment, and
(ii)may not refuse to do so.
(3)Regulations under this section may also, for example, provide for—
(a)further persons whom a local authority must involve in carrying out an assessment under section 19, 21 or 24;
(b)the way in which an assessment is to be carried out, by whom and when;
(c)the recording of the results of an assessment;
(d)the considerations to which a local authority is to have regard in carrying out an assessment;
(e)powers to provide information for the purposes of assessment.