Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe functions conferred on local authority officers for the purpose of section 23 of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the Act”), and prescribe conditions which must be satisfied in order for section 23 to apply those prescribed functions.

The Act requires Health Boards and local authorities to agree arrangements for joint working in relation to certain of their statutory functions. Section 23 of the Act makes provision to allow prescribed functions which are conferred on local authority officers to be exercised by persons other than the persons on whom the functions are directly conferred.

Regulation 2 and the Schedule set out the prescribed functions and the prescribed conditions for the application of section 23 of the Act to the prescribed functions.