Each local authority must establish a Safeguarding Adults Board (an "SAB") for its area.
The objective of an SAB is to help and protect adults in its area in cases of the kind described in section 42(1).
The way in which an SAB must seek to achieve its objective is by co-ordinating and ensuring the effectiveness of what each of its members does.
An SAB may do anything which appears to it to be necessary or desirable for the purpose of achieving its objective.
Schedule 2 (which includes provision about the membership, funding and other resources, strategy and annual report of an SAB) has effect.
Where two or more local authorities exercise their respective duties under subsection (1) by establishing an SAB for their combined area—
a reference in this section, section 44 or Schedule 2 to the authority establishing the SAB is to be read as a reference to the authorities establishing it, and
a reference in this section, that section or that Schedule to the SAB's area is to be read as a reference to the combined area.