Regulation 6 Health-related functions of local authorities

The health-related functions are—

(a)

the functions specified in Schedule 1 to the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970^f1 except for functions under—

(i)

sections 22, 23(3), 26(2) to (4), 43, 45 and 49 of the National Assistance Act 1948^f2;

(ii)

sections 6 and 7B of the Local Authorities Social Services Act 1970;

(iii)

sections 1 and 2 of the Adoption Act 1976^f3;

(iv)

sections 114 and 115 of the Mental Health Act 1983;

(v)

the Registered Homes Act 1984^f4; and

(vi)

Parts VII to X and section 86 of the Children Act 1989^f5;

(b)

the functions under sections 5, 7 or 8 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986^f6 except in so far as they assign functions to a local authority in their capacity of a local education authority;

(c)

the functions of providing, or securing the provision of recreational facilities under section 19 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976^f7;

(d)

the functions of local education authorities under the Education Acts as defined in section 57 of the Education Act 1996^f8;

(e)

the functions of local housing authorities under Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996^f9 and under Parts VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996^f10;

(f)

the functions of local authorities under section 126 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996;

(g)

the functions of waste collection or waste disposal under the Environmental Protection Act 1990^f11;

(h)

the functions of providing environmental health services under sections 180 and 181 of the Local Government Act 1972^f12;

(i)

the functions of local highway authorities under the Highways Act 1980^f13 and section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 1988^f14; and

(j)

the functions under section 63 (passenger transport) and section 93 (travel concession schemes) of the Transport Act 1985^f15.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 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).
f2: 1948 (c. 29).
f3: 1976 (c. 36).
f4: 1984 (c. 23).
f5: 1989 (c. 41).
f6: 1986 (c. 33); see Local Authority Social Services (Designation of Functions) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/222).
f7: 1976 (c. 57).
f8: 1996 (c. 56).
f9: 1996 (c. 53).
f10: 1996 (c. 52).
f11: 1990 (c. 43).
f12: 1972 (c. 70).
f13: 1980 (c. 66).
f14: 1988 (c. 52).
f15: 1985 (c. 67).