Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014

62 Shared services

(1) The Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (the “Agency”) may, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers, enter into arrangements with a person mentioned in subsection (2) under which the Agency provides, or secures the provision of, any goods or services for the person.

(2) The persons are—

(a) the Scottish Ministers,

(b) any other office-holder in the Scottish Administration,

(c) any Scottish public authority,

(d) any Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions,

(e) any government department,

(f) any cross-border public authority,

(g) any body corporate formed by a Health Board or by the Agency, or in the formation of which a Health Board or the Agency participated, by virtue of a delegation of the power in section 84B(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (joint ventures).

(3) Services which may be provided under subsection (1) include in particular—

(a) administrative services,

(b) technical services,

(c) legal services,

(d) other professional services,

(e) accommodation services.

(4) The power to make arrangements under subsection (1) is without prejudice to any other power of the Agency to provide goods or services to other persons.

(5) The Scottish Ministers may by order amend subsection (2) so as to add or remove a person, or a description of a person, for the time being mentioned in or falling within that subsection.

(6) In this section—

• “cross-border public authority” has the meaning given by section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998,

• “government department” has the meaning given by section 126(1) of that Act,

• “office-holder in the Scottish Administration” is to be construed in accordance with section 126(7) of that Act,

• “Scottish public authority” has the meaning given by section 126(1) of that Act except that it does not include—

  (a)

  a Health Board,

  (b)

  a Special Health Board (constituted under section 2(1)(b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978), or

  (c)

  Healthcare Improvement Scotland,

• “Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions” means persons, bodies and office-holders (other than the Agency) listed in schedule 5 to the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (improvement of public functions: listed bodies) under the heading “Scottish public authorities with mixed functions or no reserved functions”.