Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014

37 Review of strategic plan

(1) An integration authority—

(a) must before the expiry of the relevant period review the effectiveness of its strategic plan,

(b) may from time to time carry out such a review.

(2) In carrying out a review under subsection (1), the integration authority must—

(a) have regard to—

(i) the integration delivery principles, and

(ii) the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and

(b) seek and have regard to the views of its strategic planning group on—

(i) the effectiveness of the arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions in the area of the local authority, and

(ii) whether the integration authority should prepare a replacement strategic plan.

(3) Following a review under subsection (1), an integration authority may prepare a replacement strategic plan.

(4) Subject to subsection (2), the process of such a review is to be such as the integration authority determines.

(5) A constituent authority must provide an integration authority which is an integration joint board with such information as the integration authority may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out a review under subsection (1).

(6) The person mentioned in subsection (7) must provide an integration authority which is a Health Board or a local authority with such information as the integration authority may reasonably require for the purpose of carrying out a review under subsection (1).

(7) That person is the local authority or the Health Board with which the integration authority prepared the integration scheme in pursuance of which the integration authority acquired its delegated functions.

(8) Sections 30, 33, 34 and 35 apply in relation to a strategic plan prepared by virtue of subsection (3) as those sections apply in relation to a strategic plan prepared by virtue of section 29.

(9) A strategic plan prepared in pursuance of this section must specify a day on which the period of the plan is to begin.

(10) In subsection (1), “relevant period”, in relation to an integration authority, means—

(a) the period of 3 years beginning with the integration start day (as defined in section 29(6)), and

(b) each subsequent period of 3 years beginning with—

(i) where a replacement strategic plan is prepared following a review under subsection (1), the day specified under subsection (9),

(ii) where no replacement strategic plan is prepared following such a review, the day on which the integration authority decides not to prepare a replacement strategic plan.