19 Amendments relating to funding of health authorities etc.E+W
(1)Section 97 of the principal Act (means of meeting expenditure of health authorities out of public funds) shall be amended in accordance with this section.
(2)In subsection (1) (payments to health authorities etc. by the Secretary of State)—
(a)at the end of paragraph (a) there shall be added “including, in the case of a Regional Health Authority, its functions with respect to such expenditure of Family Health Services Authorities in relation to which it is the relevant Regional Health Authority as—
(i)is attributable to the reimbursement of expenses of persons providing services in pursuance of Part II of this Act and is of a description specified in the allotment, and
(ii)is attributable to the performance by the Family Health Services Authority of their functions in that year”;
(b)after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(aa)to each Regional Health Authority sums equal to any such expenditure of Family Health Services Authorities in relation to which it is the relevant Regional Health Authority as is attributable to the remuneration of persons providing services in pursuance of Part II of this Act and is not of a description specified as mentioned in paragraph (a) above”; and
(c)in paragraph (b) for the words “Family Practitioner Committee” there shall be inserted “Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales”.
(3)In subsection (2) (payments by Regional Health Authorities) for the words following “each financial year” there shall be substituted—
“(a)to each District Health Authority whose district is included in the region sums not exceeding the amount allotted by the Regional Health Authority to the District Health Authority for that year towards meeting the expenditure attributable to the performance by the District Health Authority of their functions in that year; and
(b)to each Family Health Services Authority in relation to which it is the relevant Regional Health Authority—
(i)sums equal to the expenditure referred to in subsection (1)(aa) above; and
(ii)sums not exceeding the amount allotted by the Regional Health Authority to the Family Health Services Authority for that year towards meeting other expenditure attributable to the reimbursement of expenses of persons providing services in pursuance of Part II of this Act and to the performance by the Family Health Services Authority of their functions in that year.”
(4)In subsection (3) (directions of Secretary of State)—
(a)after the word “directions” there shall be inserted “(a)”;
(b)after the word “Regional” there shall be inserted “or Special” and for the words “Practitioner Committee” there shall be substituted “Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales”; and
(c)at the end of the subsection there shall be added “and
(b)to a District Health Authority in England with respect to the payment of sums by them to the Regional Health Authority in respect of charges or other sums referable to the valuation or disposal of assets; and
(c)to a Regional Health Authority with respect to the application of sums received by them by virtue of paragraph (b) above or by virtue of section 15(7)(a) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.”
(5)In subsection (4) (directions of Regional Health Authorities) for the words from “an Area Health Authority” onwards there shall be substituted “a District Health Authority whose district is included in the region or a Family Health Services Authority in relation to which it is the relevant Regional Health Authority with respect to the application of any sum paid out of those sums to the District Health Authority or the Family Health Services Authority under subsection (2) above”.