6. In the Partnership Arrangements Regulations, after regulation 18 insert—
18A.—(1) The partnership bodies for each of the regional partnership board areas must specify the arrangements by which they will together carry out the market stability report functions.
(2) In this regulation, “market stability report functions” means the specified functions conferred on local authorities by section 144B of the Act(1).”
Local authority functions under section 144B of the Act are one of the social services functions which are “specified functions” for the purposes of the Partnership Arrangements Regulations by virtue of regulation 9 of, and Schedule 1 to, those Regulations.