{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-bodies-joint-working-scotland-act-2014/section-38",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/9",
  "legislation_title": "Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-bodies-joint-working-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Requirement to prepare replacement strategic plan",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the integration authority in relation to the area of a local authority is an integration joint board.\n(2) If it appears to a constituent authority that the strategic plan is preventing, or is likely to prevent, the constituent authority from carrying out any of its functions appropriately or in a way which complies with the integration delivery principles and contributes to achieving the national health and wellbeing outcomes, the constituent authorities acting jointly may direct the integration authority to prepare a replacement strategic plan.\n(3) A direction under subsection (2) must—\n(a) be in writing,\n(b) include a statement summarising the reasons for giving it.\n(4) A direction under subsection (2) must specify—\n(a) a day by which the replacement strategic plan must be prepared, and\n(b) a day on which the period of the plan is to begin.\n(5) The constituent authorities acting jointly may by direction substitute a different day for a day specified under subsection (4).\n(6) An integration authority must comply with a direction given to it under subsection (2).\n(7) Sections 30, 33, 34 and 35 apply in relation to a strategic plan prepared by virtue of subsection (2) as those sections apply in relation to a strategic plan prepared by virtue of section 29.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 38 in force at 22.9.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/231, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/9/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:12.749670+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}