The Health Research Authority (Transfer of Staff, Property and Liabilities) and Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2014

Winding up of affairs of the Authority

4.—(1) The HRA must prepare accounts and audits in respect of the period commencing on 1st April 2014 and ending on 31st December 2014 in accordance with Schedule 15 (accounts and audit) of the National Health Service Act 2006(1) and must ensure that accounts are kept, audited and transmitted in accordance with that Schedule as if, in that Schedule—

(a) the reference to financial year were a reference to the period ending on 31st December 2014; and

(b) references to a Special Health Authority were a reference to the HRA.

(2) Where the Authority has been directed to prepare or present a report in accordance with regulations 7 (reports by the Authority) and 8 (public meeting) of the Health Research Authority Regulations 2011(2) before the transfer date, the HRA must prepare a report to the Secretary of State and present the report as if—

(a) those Regulations were still in force, notwithstanding the revocations made in section 109(3)(b) of the Act; and

(b) the references to the Authority in those Regulations and in any directions(3) given in accordance with those Regulations were a reference to the HRA.

(3) In respect of property, rights and liabilities of the Authority which have transferred to the HRA on the transfer date, the HRA must take such other steps as may be appropriate and necessary to secure the winding up of the affairs of the Authority.

(1)

2006 c.41.

(2)

S.I. 2011/2341 as amended by S.I. 2012/1108.

(3)

By way of the Health Research Authority Directions 2013 signed on 28th March 2013, the Secretary of State directed the Authority to prepare and send to the Secretary of State an annual report in relation to its activities by 30th November in the financial year following the financial year to which the report relates; see direction 4.