Responsibility for ensuring availability of appropriate adults
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4.—(1) Each local authority has the function of ensuring that people are available to provide appropriate adult support when it is required within that local authority area.
(2) In discharging the function referred to in paragraph (1), a local authority may enter into a contract with another person.
(3) In discharging the function referred to in paragraph (1), local authorities must have regard to guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers in accordance with section 104(2)(b) of the 2016 Act.