These Regulations make provision for certain National Health Service bodies and local authorities to enter into arrangements (“partnership arrangements”) for the exercise of specified functions.

Regulation 3 prescribes the National Health Service bodies and local authorities (“the partners”) which may enter into the arrangements.

Regulation 4 sets out the conditions which must be satisfied before the partners may enter the partnership arrangements. Regulations 5 and 6 prescribe the NHS functions and the health-related local authority functions which may be the subject of partnership arrangements.

The Regulations also define the nature of the partnership arrangements. They provide for the establishment of a fund made up of contributions from the partners out of which payments may be made towards expenditure incurred in the exercise of their functions; for the exercise by National Health Service bodies of local authority functions and for the exercise by local authorities of National Health Service functions; and require the partners to set out the terms of the arrangements in writing (regulations 7, 8 and 9).

Regulation 10 makes supplementary provisions.