42Integration authority: performance report
(1)Each integration authority must prepare a performance report for the reporting year.
(2)A performance report is a report setting out an assessment of performance during the reporting year to which it relates in planning and carrying out the integration functions for the area of the local authority.
(3)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations prescribe the form and content of performance reports.
(4)An integration authority must—
(a)publish each performance report before the expiry of the period of 4 months beginning with the end of the reporting year, and
(b)provide a copy of it to the persons mentioned in subsection (5).
(5)Those persons are—
(a)where the integration authority is an integration joint board, each constituent authority,
(b)where the integration authority is a local authority and a Health Board acting jointly, the integration joint monitoring committee,
(c)where the integration authority is a Health Board or a local authority—
(i)the integration joint monitoring committee, and
(ii)the other authority.
(6)A constituent authority must provide an integration authority which is an integration joint board with such information as the authority may reasonably require for the purpose of preparing a performance report.
(7)The other authority 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 preparing a performance report.
(8)In this section—
“other authority” means 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,
“reporting year”, in relation to an integration authority, means—
(a)the period beginning with the date prescribed under section 9(3) or, as the case may be, 15(2) and ending on the first anniversary of that date, and
(b)each subsequent period of a year.