{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2008/5",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duty of health boards and local authorities to co-operate",
  "text": "(1) In exercising the functions conferred on them by virtue of this Act, each—\n(a) health board; and\n(b) local authority,\nmust co-operate with any relevant person that appears to the board or, as the case may be, authority to have an interest in or a function relating to the protection of public health.\n(2) In subsection (1), a “relevant person” is—\n(a) a health board;\n(b) a special health board;\n(c) a local authority;\n(ca) an integration joint board established under section 9(2) of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014;\n(d) the common services agency;\n(da) Healthcare Improvement Scotland;\n(e) the Scottish Ministers.\n(3) Subsection (1) is without prejudice to section 13 of the 1978 Act (duty of health boards and local authorities to co-operate to secure and advance the health of the people of Scotland).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6(2)(da) inserted (1.10.2010 for specified purposes, 1.4.2011 in so far as not already in force) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), s. 134(7), Sch. 17 para. 37(a); S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, Sch.; S.S.I. 2011/122, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 6(2)(ca) inserted (1.4.2015) by The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Modifications and Saving) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/157), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 1.10.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/319, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/5/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:45.653037+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."
}