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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-bodies-joint-working-prescribed-days-scotland-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/284",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Prescribed Days) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-bodies-joint-working-prescribed-days-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe days for the purposes of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the Act”).\nEach local authority and Health Board is required by virtue of section 1 or, as the case may be, section 2 of the Act to prepare an integration scheme setting out arrangements for joint working in respect of certain of their functions in relation to health and social care. Section 7(1) of the Act requires that an integration scheme is to be submitted to the Scottish Ministers for approval. Regulation 2 of these Regulations prescribes the day by which a local authority and Health Board must jointly submit the scheme to the Scottish Ministers for approval. The prescribed day for the purposes of sections 7(1) and 7(5) is 1st April 2015.\nThe integration scheme prepared under section 1, or as the case may be section 2, of the Act is to make provision for the Health Board, or the local authority, or both of them, to delegate certain of their statutory functions. Regulation 3 sets out the prescribed day on which functions are to be delegated under section 9 or, as the case may be, section 15 of the Act if the functions have not been delegated on an earlier date by virtue of section 29(4) of the Act. Section 51(2) of the Act provides that the Scottish Ministers have certain default powers, including the power in section 51(2)(c) to require functions to be delegated before the prescribed day. The prescribed day for the purposes of sections 9, 15 and 51(2)(c) is 1st April 2016.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/284/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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