Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014

2 Integration schemes: two or more local authorities in Health Board area

(1) This section applies where the areas of two or more local authorities fall within the area of a Health Board.

(2) Each local authority and the Health Board must comply with subsection (3) or (4).

(3) Each local authority and the Health Board must jointly prepare an integration scheme for the area of the local authority.

(4) Two or more local authorities and the Health Board must jointly prepare an integration scheme for the areas of those local authorities.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), if the local authorities and the Health Board decide that the integration model mentioned in paragraph (c) or (d) of section 1(4) is to apply—

(a) functions are to be delegated under those models to only one of the local authorities,

(b) the authorities and the Health Board must set out in the integration scheme which local authority the functions are to be delegated to (the “lead authority”),

(c) paragraph (c) of section 1(4) applies as if for the words “to the local authority” there were substituted the words “and the local authority or authorities to the lead authority”, and

(d) paragraph (d) of section 1(4) applies as if for the words from “to”, where it first occurs, to “local” there were substituted “or authorities to the Health Board and delegation of functions by the Health Board and the local authority or authorities to the lead”.

(6) In preparing an integration scheme under subsection (3) or (4), a local authority and the Health Board must take into account—

(a) any other integration scheme that has been, or is being, prepared in relation to the area of the same Health Board, and

(b) the likely effect on the Health Board of both or all the schemes prepared under this section.