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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nhs-bodies-and-local-authorities-partnership-arrangements-regulations-2000/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/617",
  "legislation_title": "NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements Regulations 2000",
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  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Health-related functions of local authorities",
  "text": "The health-related functions are—\n(a) the functions specified in Schedule 1 to the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970 except for functions under—\n(i) sections 22, 23(3), 26(2) to (4), 43, 45 and 49 of the National Assistance Act 1948;\n(ii) sections 6 and 7B of the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970;\n(iii) sections 1 and 2 of the Adoption Act 1976;\n(iv) sections 114 and 115 of the Mental Health Act 1983;\n(v) the Registered Homes Act 1984; and\n(vi) Parts VII to X and section 86 of the Children Act 1989;\n(b) the functions under sections 5, 7 or 8 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986 except in so far as they assign functions to a local authority in their capacity of a local education authority;\n(c) the functions of providing, or securing the provision of recreational facilities under section 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;\n(d) the functions of local education authorities under the Education Acts as defined in section 57 of the Education Act 1996;\n(e) the functions of local housing authorities under Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and under Parts VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996;\n(f) the functions of local authorities under section 126 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996;\n(g) the functions of waste collection or waste disposal under the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n(h) the functions of providing environmental health services under sections 180 and 181 of the Local Government Act 1972;\n(i) the functions of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980 and section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; and\n(j) the functions under section 63 (passenger transport) and section 93 (travel concession schemes) of the Transport Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 (c. 42); Schedule 1 was amended (by repeal, substitution, or insertion of entries) by the following: section 78 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Charities Act 1992 (c. 42); section 78 of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 (c. 22); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1978 (c. 45); the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50); section 73(3) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Adoption Act 1976 (c. 36); section 57 of, and Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32); section 148 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20); section 108(5) of, and Schedules 13 and 15 to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41); section 89(2) of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates' Courts Act 1978 (c. 22); section 127(1) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 36); section 54 of, and Schedules 2 and 3 to, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18); section 35(2) and (3) of, and Schedules 7 and 8 to, the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (c. 71); section 129 of, and Schedule 16 to, the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49); section 66(1) of, and Schedule 9 to, the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19); section 20(1) of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); sections 3 and 4 of, and Schedules 1 and 2 to, the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 71); section 57 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Registered Homes Act 1984 (c. 23); section 216(3) of, and Schedule 17 to, the Housing Act 1996 (c. 52); section 582(1) and (2) of, and Schedules 37 and 38 to, the Education Act 1996 (c. 56); section 1(7) of the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995 (c. 12); section 3(1) and (3) of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 (c. 30); and section 15(1) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (c. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1948 (c. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1976 (c. 36)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1984 (c. 23)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1989 (c. 41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1986 (c. 33); see Local Authority Social Services (Designation of Functions) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/222)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1976 (c. 57)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1996 (c. 56)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1996 (c. 53)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1996 (c. 52)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1990 (c. 43)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1972 (c. 70)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1980 (c. 66)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1988 (c. 52)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "1985 (c. 67)."
    }
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