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Arrangements between health boards and local authorities.
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25.—(1) Where—
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(a) a local authority is of opinion that it would be more convenient that any power, function or duty which may be exercised or performed by it should be exercised or performed, whether generally or in a particular case, by a health board, and
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(b) the health board is able and willing so to exercise or perform the power, function or duty,
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the authority and the board may, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, make an arrangement for the power, function or duty to be so exercised or performed on behalf of the authority by the board, and it shall thereupon become so exercisable or performable by the board.
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(2) The making of an arrangement under subsection (1) shall be a reserved function of the local authority.
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(3) Where a local authority is of opinion that it would be convenient for duties in relation to its powers and functions to be performed by an officer of a health board, that duty may be assigned to that officer by the chief executive officer of the health board in the same way as duties relating to the powers and functions of the board.
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(4) Where the chief executive officer of a health board is of opinion that it would be convenient that duties relating to any of the powers or functions of the board or its officers should be assigned to an officer of a local authority, those duties may be assigned to such an officer by the local authority in the same way as duties under the local authority.
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