NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements Regulations 2000

Health-related functions of local authorities

6.  The health-related functions are—

(a) the functions specified in Schedule 1 to the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970(1) except for functions under—

(i) sections 22, 23(3), 26(2) to (4), 43, 45 and 49 of the National Assistance Act 1948(2);

(ii) sections 6 and 7B of the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970;

(iii) sections 1 and 2 of the Adoption Act 1976(3);

(iv) sections 114 and 115 of the Mental Health Act 1983;

(v) the Registered Homes Act 1984(4); and

(vi) Parts VII to X and section 86 of the Children Act 1989(5);

(b) the functions under sections 5, 7 or 8 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986(6) except in so far as they assign functions to a local authority in their capacity of a local education authority;

(c) the functions of providing, or securing the provision of recreational facilities under section 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976(7);

(d) the functions of local education authorities under the Education Acts as defined in section 57 of the Education Act 1996(8);

(e) the functions of local housing authorities under Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996(9) and under Parts VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996(10);

(f) the functions of local authorities under section 126 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996;

(g) the functions of waste collection or waste disposal under the Environmental Protection Act 1990(11);

(h) the functions of providing environmental health services under sections 180 and 181 of the Local Government Act 1972(12);

(i) the functions of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980(13) and section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1988(14); and

(j) the functions under section 63 (passenger transport) and section 93 (travel concession schemes) of the Transport Act 1985(15).

(1)

1970 (c. 42); Schedule 1 was amended (by repeal, substitution, or insertion of entries) by the following: section 78 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Charities Act 1992 (c. 42); section 78 of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50); section 73(3) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Adoption Act 1976 (c. 36); section 57 of, and Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32); section 148 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20); section 108(5) of, and Schedules 13 and 15 to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41); section 89(2) of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22); section 127(1) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36); section 54 of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18); section 35(2) and (3) of, and Schedules 7 and 8 to, the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71); section 129 of, and Schedule 16 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49); section 66(1) of, and Schedule 9 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19); section 20(1) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); sections 3 and 4 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71); section 57 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Registered Homes Act 1984 (c. 23); section 216(3) of, and Schedule 17 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52); section 582(1) and (2) of, and Schedules 37 and 38 to, the Education Act 1996 (c. 56); section 1(7) of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 (c. 12); section 3(1) and (3) of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 (c. 30); and section 15(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (c. 18).

(2)

1948 (c. 29).

(3)

1976 (c. 36).

(4)

1984 (c. 23).

(5)

1989 (c. 41).

(6)

1986 (c. 33); see Local Authority Social Services (Designation of Functions) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/222).

(7)

1976 (c. 57).

(8)

1996 (c. 56).

(9)

1996 (c. 53).

(10)

1996 (c. 52).

(11)

1990 (c. 43).

(12)

1972 (c. 70).

(13)

1980 (c. 66).

(14)

1988 (c. 52).

(15)

1985 (c. 67).