183 Local authority arrangements

183  Local authority arrangements

(1)     Section 222 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (arrangements under section 221 of that Act) is amended as follows.

(2)     For subsection (2) substitute—

“(2)     The arrangements must be made with a body corporate which—

(a)     is a social enterprise, and

(b)     satisfies such criteria as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(2A)     For so long as the arrangements are in force, the body with which they are made—

(a)     has the function of carrying on in A's area the activities specified in section 221(2), and

(b)     is to be known as the “Local Healthwatch organisation” for A's area.

(2B)     But the arrangements may authorise the Local Healthwatch organisation to make, in pursuance of those arrangements, arrangements (“Local Healthwatch arrangements”)

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