Commentary on Sections Carrying out of integration functions Section 42 - Integration authority: performance report
110.This section requires each integration authority to prepare a performance report for each reporting year. The report must set out an assessment of performance in carrying out the integrated functions during the reporting year.
111.Subsection (3) enables the Scottish Ministers to make regulations that set out the form and content of performance reports. Subsections (4) and (5) require the integration authority to publish the performance report within four months of the end of the reporting year and to provide a copy to the Health Board, the local authority and/or the integration joint monitoring committee, as appropriate to the model of integration chosen.
112.Subsections (6) and (7) require that the Health Board and the local authority must provide such information as the integration authority might reasonably require for the purposes of preparing a performance report to the integration joint board or the authority (being a local authority or Health Board), as appropriate to the model of integration chosen.
113.Subsection (8) provides that the “reporting year” is a period of one year starting on the date that the integration functions were delegated or the prescribed date set by the Scottish Ministers that delegation of functions must occur, and each subsequent period of a year.