Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

Safeguarding Board Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

244.—(1) The Safeguarding Board Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 is amended as follows.

(2) In section 1—

(a) omit subsection (3)(a);

(b) after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A) The persons who may be prescribed under subsection (2)(b)include any individual employed in a role the normal duties of which consist wholly or mainly of the direction or oversight of the exercise of the functions of the Department that are mentioned in subsection (3B) (and for that purpose the employer of such an individual may be prescribed under subsection (3)(j)).

(3B) Those functions are the functions of the Department that relate to,or are exercised in connection with, the social care and children functions of Health and Social Care trusts (within the meaning given by Article 10A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991).”.

(3) In section 3(6)—

(a) for “the Regional Health and Social Care Board” substitute “the Department”;

(b) omit “and Local Commissioning Groups”.

(4) In section 12(1), omit paragraph (a).