22 Exception for provision of health services

22  Exception for provision of health services

(1)     A local authority may not meet needs under sections 18 to 20 by providing or arranging for the provision of a service or facility that is required to be provided under the National Health Service Act 2006 unless—

(a)     doing so would be merely incidental or ancillary to doing something else to meet needs under those sections, and

(b)     the service or facility in question would be of a nature that the local authority could be expected to provide.

(2)     Regulations may specify—

(a)     types of services or facilities which, despite subsection (1), may be provided or the provision of which may be arranged by a local authority, or circumstances in which such services or facilities may be so provided or the provision of which may be so arranged;

(b)     types of services or facilities which

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