Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007

223 Arrangements: power to make further provision

(1) The Secretary of State must make regulations which provide that arrangements made under section 221(1) (“local authority arrangements”) must require prescribed provision to be included in local involvement network arrangements.

(2) The regulations may in particular provide that local authority arrangements must require local involvement network arrangements to include—

(a) prescribed provision relating to the way in which certain decisions of a local involvement network are to be taken;

(b) prescribed provision relating to the authorisation of individuals as authorised representatives within the meaning of section 225(5);

(c) prescribed provision relating to the use by a local involvement network of money derived from the arrangements;

(d) prescribed provision relating to the consequences of contravention by a local involvement network of any provision of the arrangements.

(3) In this section—

• “a local involvement network” means a person who is to carry on activities specified in section 221(2);

• “local involvement network arrangements”, in relation to local authority arrangements, means arrangements—

  (a)

  which are made in pursuance of the local authority arrangements; and

  (b)

  under which a person is to carry on activities specified in section 221(2);

• “prescribed provision” means provision prescribed or of a description prescribed by the regulations.