s 4 Collaboration agreements: supplementary
(1) A collaboration agreement may, in particular, make provision about the use, for the purposes of the agreement, of a power of a party to the agreement to— (a) make arrangements for the exercise of the party's functions by another person, or (b) exercise functions jointly with another person. (2) A collaboration agreement may include provision for payments to be made by the parties to the agreement for the purposes of facilitating that agreement. (3) A party to a collaboration agreement may do anything that is necessary or expedient for the purposes of facilitating the agreement. (4) Subsection (3) is subject to any restriction imposed on a party by, or by virtue of, an enactment or rule of law. (5) A collaboration agreement may not include provision for the delegation of a function where that function may not otherwise be delegated. (6) The delegation of a function pursuant to a collaboration agreement does not affect the responsibility of any party to the agreement for the exercise of its functions. (7) A collaboration agreement must make provision for a party to withdraw from the agreement where in the view of that party the agreement is no longer in the interests of its efficiency or effectiveness. (8) A collaboration agreement may be— (a) varied with the agreement of all of the parties to the agreement, or (b) replaced by a subsequent collaboration agreement.