PART 1Functions of local authorities and Health Boards

Integration schemes

I16Consultation

1

This section applies where a local authority and a Health Board are required by section 1(2) or 2(2) to prepare an integration scheme.

2

Before submitting the integration scheme for approval under section 7, the local authority and the Health Board must jointly consult—

a

such persons or groups of persons appearing to the Scottish Ministers to have an interest as may be prescribed, and

b

such other persons as the local authority and the Health Board think fit.

3

In finalising the integration scheme, the local authority and the Health Board must take account of any views expressed by virtue of subsection (2).