(This note does not form part of the Regulations)
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.