Part 1Public health responsibilities

Co-operation and planning

6Duty of health boards and local authorities to co-operate

(1)

In exercising the functions conferred on them by virtue of this Act, each—

(a)

health board; and

(b)

local authority,

must co-operate with any relevant person that appears to the board or, as the case may be, authority to have an interest in or a function relating to the protection of public health.

F1(2)

In subsection (1), a “relevant person” is—

(a)

a health board;

(b)

a special health board;

(c)

a local authority;

F2(ca)

an integration joint board established under section 9(2) of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014;

(d)

the common services agency;

F1(da)

Healthcare Improvement Scotland;

(e)

the Scottish Ministers.

(3)

Subsection (1) is without prejudice to section 13 of the 1978 Act (duty of health boards and local authorities to co-operate to secure and advance the health of the people of Scotland).