National Health Service Act 1977

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Act repealed by 2006 c. 43 Sch. 4

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s. 3(4) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 8
s. 3(4)(a) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 7(4)(a)
s. 3(4)(b) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 3(4)(b) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 7(4)(b)
s. 8(9) (10) added by 2006 c. 28 s. 74(1)
s. 11(4A) (4B) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 74(2)(a)
s. 16CD 16CE inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 37
s. 19A(2)(aa) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 9 para. 9
s. 21(4) inserted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 9
s. 22(1A)(e) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 4 para. 25
s. 28D(1)(bc)(i) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 28D(1)(bc)(iii) words substituted by S.I. 2004/957 Sch. para. 3
s. 28E(3)(ca) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 177(7)
s. 28E(3A) (3B) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 177(8)
s. 28E(3C) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 177(9)
s. 28E(3D) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 177(10)
s. 28E(3E) (3F) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 177(11)
s. 28M(4) words substituted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 16
s. 28W(5) applied by S.I. 2004/478 reg. 100(3)
s. 28W(5) applied by S.I. 2004/478 Sch. 6 para. 100(3)
s. 28X applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2006/552 Sch. 1 para. 4
s. 28X heading words substituted by 2006 c. 28 s. 39(5)
s. 28X(1A) inserted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 17(a)
s. 28X(2A) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 39(2)
s. 28X(3)(b) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 s. 39(3)
s. 28X(3)(c) added by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 17(b)
s. 28X(6A) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 39(4)
s. 28Y inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 180
s. 28Y(1) applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2006/552 Sch. 1 para. 5
s. 28Y(1)(a) substituted by 2006 c. 28 s. 40(2)
s. 28Y(1)(b) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 s. 40(3)
s. 28Y(1)(c) added by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 18
s. 28WA-28WF and cross-heading inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 38
s. 29-34A repealed by 2003 c. 43 s. 175(2) Sch. 14 Pt. 4
s. 34A inserted by 1997 c. 46 s. 25(1) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 25(1) repealed (1.4.2004) without ever being in force by Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43), s. 199(1)(4), Sch. 14 Pt. 4 Note; S.I. 2004/288, art. 6(2)(p) (with art. 8) (as amended by S.I. 2004/866 and S.I. 2005/2925); S.I. 2004/480, art. 5(2)(p) (with arts. 6, 7) (as amended by S.I. 2004/1019 and S.I. 2006/345))
s. 35(3)-(3B) substituted for s. 35(3) by S.I. 2005/2011 Sch. 6 para. 1(2)(a) (This amendment comes into force on a day to be specified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes (see, for example, the London Gazette, issue nos. 57734, 57975, 58050 and 58769, dated respectively 19.8.2005, 5.6.2006, 21.7.2006 and 18.7.2008))
s. 42(2A) inserted by 2001 c. 15 s. 40(3)
s. 42(2B) (2C) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 35
s. 42A 42B inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 34(1)
s. 43(4)(5) added by 1997 c. 19 Sch. para. 6 (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. 1997 c. 19 repealed (30.3.2007) by S.I. 2007/289, art. 1(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 6; commencing date as notified in The Gazette, published 23.3.2007)
s. 43A inserted by 1984 c. 48 s. 7(1) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 7(1) repealed (1.3.2007 immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 comes into force) without ever being in force by National Health Service (Pre - consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with art. 4))
s. 43A 43B substituted by 1999 c. 8 s. 10(1)(2) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 10 repealed (1.3.2007) without ever being in force by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), ss. 6, 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1))
s. 43A 43B substituted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 19
s. 43A(3) repealed by 1997 c. 46 Sch. 2 para. 77 Sch. 3 Pt. 2 (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Sch. 2 para. 77 repealed (E.W.) (1.3.2007 immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 comes into force) without ever being in force by The National Health Service (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with art. 4))
s. 43B added by 1984 c. 48 s. 7(3) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 7(3) repealed to the extent that it inserts section 43B of the National Health Service Act 1977 (1.3.2007 immediately before the National Health Service Act 2006 comes into force) without that amendment ever being in force by National Health Service (Pre - consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 (with art. 4))
s. 44(3A) inserted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 20(c)
s. 45A(3) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 45A(3)(a) word repealed by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 17(2) Sch. 9
s. 45A(3)(aa) inserted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 17(2)
s. 45A(4) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 45A(4)(a) substituted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 17(3)
s. 45A(11) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 45C inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 41
s. 46-46C substituted for s. 46 by 1999 c. 8 s. 40(1) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 40 repealed by 2001 c. 15, ss. 67, 70(2), Sch. 6 Pt. 1 (with ss. 64(a), 65(4)), the repeal coming into force immediately before the coming into force of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) (as to which see s. 227 of that 2006 Act) by virtue of The National Health Service (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1407), arts. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 8(c))
s. 54(1)(c) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 72(5)(d) and word(s) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 27(2)
s. 72(5)(d) modified by S.I. 2004/865 art. 109(2)(a)
s. 72(5)(d) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 21(b)(i)
s. 72(5)(d) words substituted by 2006 c. 28 Sch. 8 para. 21(b)(ii)
s. 77(4) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 28
s. 78A inserted by 1997 c. 46 s. 26(1) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. S. 26(1) repealed (1.3.2007) without ever being in force by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1 Sch. 3 Pt. 1))
s. 79(5)(b) modified by 2003 c. 43 s. 183(4)
s. 96(4) added by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 27
s. 96A(12) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 4 para. 37
s. 98(1A) substituted by S.I. 2004/1714 Sch. 2 para. 1(2)
s. 98(1A)(e) inserted by S.I. 2006/960 Sch. 2 para. 1(2)
s. 98(1C) words inserted by S.I. 2004/1714 Sch. 2 para. 1(4)
s. 98(1C) words substituted by S.I. 2006/960 Sch. 2 para. 1(4)
s. 98(1D) inserted by 2004 c. 23 Sch. 2 para. 2
s. 98(1BA)(1BB) inserted by S.I. 2004/1714 Sch. 2 para. 1(3)
s. 98(1BC) inserted by S.I. 2006/960 Sch. 2 para. 1(3)
s. 98(7)-(10) inserted by S.I. 2005/1074 art. 2(2)
s. 103(4)(5) inserted by 2001 c. 15 Sch. 5 para. 5(12)(c) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Sch. 5 para. 5(12)(c) repealed (1.3.2007) without ever being in force by 2006 c. 43, s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1, Sch. 3 Pt. 1))
s. 124A(3)(aa) inserted by 2002 c. 38 Sch. 3 para. 20
s. 126(1A) inserted by 2003 c. 43 s. 183(3)(b)
s. 126(4A) inserted by 2001 c. 15 Sch. 5 para. 5(13)(c) (This amendment not applied to legislation.gov.uk. Sch. 5 para. 5(13)(c) repealed (1.3.2007) without ever being in force by 2006 c. 43, s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1, Sch. 3 Pt. 1))
Sch. 5 para. 12B inserted by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 39(c)
Sch. 5 para. 10(2A)-(2C) substituted for Sch. 5 para. 10(2A) by S.I. 2005/2011 Sch. 6 para. 1(4) (This amendment comes into force on a day to be specified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes (see, for example, the London Gazette, issue nos. 57734, 57975, 58050 and 58769, dated respectively 19.8.2005, 5.6.2006, 21.7.2006 and 18.7.2008))
Sch. 5A para. 20(1A) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 74(3)
Sch. 5B para. 19(1A) inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 74(4)
Sch. 7A para. 3(1)(fa) inserted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(a)
Sch. 7A para. 3(1)(g) words repealed by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 40(2)(b) Sch. 14 Pt. 4
Sch. 7A para. 3(2) words substituted by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 40(3)
Sch. 9A para. 10(a)(aa) substituted for s. Sch. 9A para. 10(a) by 2003 c. 43 Sch. 11 para. 42(4)(b)
Sch. 9A para. 6(d)(i)(ii) substituted for words in para. 6(d) by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 40(b)
Sch. 11 para. 5A inserted by S.I. 2004/3363 art. 7
Sch. 12 para. 2A(6) added by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 42(g)
Sch. 12 para. 2B amendment to earlier affecting provision 2006 c. 28, s. 41(3) by S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 15 (The earlier affecting provision cited is incorrect. The correct provision should be s. 42(3).)
Sch. 12 para. 2B inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 42(3)
Sch. 12 para. 2A(1)(b) (ba) substituted for Sch. 12 para. 2A(1)(b) by 2006 c. 28 s. 42(2)(a)
Sch. 12B inserted by 2006 c. 28 s. 56(2) Sch. 3

Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the National Health Service Act 1977

Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:

S.I. 2004/103 art. 2-4 commences (2001 c. 15)
S.I. 2004/287 art. 2 3 commences (1997 c. 46)
S.I. 2004/288 art. 2-6 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2004/289 art. 2 commences (1998 c. 8)
S.I. 2004/480 art. 2-5 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2004/759 art. 2-13 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2004/874 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 42)
S.I. 2004/1009 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2004/1019 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2004/1859 art. 2-6 commences (1999 c. 8)
S.I. 2004/2626 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2005/457 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2005/558 art. 2 Sch. 1 commences (2004 c. 23)
S.I. 2005/1432 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 12)
S.I. 2005/2213 art. 2 3 commences (2002 c. 38)
S.I. 2005/2800 art. 3-5 commences (2005 c. 10)
S.I. 2005/2897 art. 2 commences (2002 c. 38)
S.I. 2005/2925 art. 2 4-11 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2005/2926 art. 2 3 commences (1997 c. 46)
S.I. 2006/345 art. 2-7 commences (2003 c. 43)
S.I. 2006/481 art. 2 3 commences (2001 c. 15)
S.I. 2006/1014 art. 2 Sch. 1 2 commences (2005 c. 4)
S.I. 2006/1407 Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3 6 8 12 13 commences (1997 c. 46)
S.I. 2006/2603 art. 2-5 commences (2006 c. 28)
S.I. 2006/3125 art. 2-4 commences (2006 c. 28)
S.I. 2007/204 art. 2-4 commences (2006 c. 28)
S.I. 2008/1972 art. 2 commences (2006 c. 28)

[F196A Power of health authorities, etc. to raise money, etc., by appeals, collections, etc.E+W+S

(1)A [F2Strategic Health Authority,][F3Health Authority, Special Health Authority][F4, Local Health Board][F5or NHS trust] shall have power to engage in activities intended to stimulate the giving (whether on trust or otherwise) of money or other property to assist the [F2Strategic Health Authority,][F3Health Authority, Special Health Authority][F4, Local Health Board][F5or NHS trust] in providing or improving any services or any facilities or accommodation which is or are or is or are to be provided as part of the health service or to assist them in connection with their functions with respect to research.

(2)A Board of Governors of a teaching hospital shall, so long as it is a preserved Board by virtue of section 15 of the M1National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973, have the like power in relation to services, facilities or accommodation provided or to be provided at or by the hospital or their functions with respect to research.

(3)Subject to any directions of the Secretary of State excluding specified descriptions of activity, the activities authorised by this section include public appeals or collections and competitions, entertainments, bazaars, sales of produce or other goods and other similar activities and the activities may involve the use of land, premises or other property held by or for the benefit of the [F6Strategic Health Authority,][F7Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] exercising the power subject however to any restrictions on the purposes for which trust property may be used.

(4)Subject to the following provisions of this section, the [F8Strategic Health Authority,][F7Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] at whose instance property is given in pursuance of this section shall, after defraying out of it any expenses incurred in obtaining it, hold, administer and apply the property on trust for or for the purpose for which it was given.

(5)Where property is given in pursuance of this section to or on trust for any purposes of a hospital for which special trustees have been appointed, the property may be held, administered and applied by the special trustees instead of by the [F9body responsible for the hospital if that body and the special trustees agree; and in this subsection the body responsible for a hospital is,—

(a)in the case of a hospital vested in a NHS trust, that trust; and

(b)in any other case, the [F10Strategic Health Authority,][F11Primary Care Trust or][F12Health Authority] exercising functions F13. . . of the Secretary of State in respect of the hospital]

[F14(5A)Where property is given in pursuance of this section on trust for any purposes of an NHS trust for which trustees have been appointed under section 11(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, then, if those trustees and the NHS trust agree, the property may be held, administered and applied by those trustees instead of by the NHS trust.]

[F15(5B)Where property—

(a)is given in pursuance of this section on trust for any purposes of a Primary Care Trust for which trustees have been appointed under section 96B below, and

(b)those trustees and the Primary Care Trust agree,

the property may be held, administered and applied by those trustees instead of by the Primary Care Trust.]

(6)Property given in pursuance of this section on trust may be transferred F16. . .by order of the Secretary of State under section 92 above in the same circumstances as other trust property may be transferred under that section, and sections 94 and 96 above shall apply as they apply to other trust property transferred under the said section 92.

(7)Where property held by a [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] under this section is more than sufficient to enable the purpose for which it was given to be fulfilled the excess shall be applicable, in default of any provision for its application made by the trust or other instrument under or in accordance with which the property comprising the excess was given, for such purposes connected with any of the functions of the authority or Board as the [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] think fit.

(8)Where property held by a [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] under this section is insufficient to enable the purpose for which it was given to be fulfilled then—

(a)the [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] may apply so much of the capital or income at their disposal as is needed to enable the purpose to be fulfilled subject, however, in the case of trust property, to any restrictions on the purpose for which the trust property may be applied and, in the case of money paid or payable by the Secretary of State F19. . . under section 97 below, to any directions he F19. . . may give; but

(b)where the capital or income applicable under paragraph (a) above is insufficient or is not applied to enable the purpose to be fulfilled, the property so held by the [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust]shall be applicable, in default of any provision for its application made by the trust or other instrument under or in accordance with which the property was given, for such purposes connected with any of the functions of the authority or Board as the [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] think fit.

(9)Where under subsection (7) or (8) above property becomes applicable for purposes other than that for which it was given the [F17Strategic Health Authority,][F18Health Authority, Special Health Authority [F4, Local Health Board] or NHS trust] shall have regard to the desirability of applying the property for a purpose similar to that for which it was given.

(10)In this section “special trustees” has the same meaning as in section 95 above and references to the purposes for which trust property may be used or applied are to be taken, in the case of trust property which has been transferred under section 92 above, to include references to those purposes as enlarged by section 94 above.]

[F20(11)This section (apart from subsection (5A)) has effect in relation to a Primary Care Trust as it has effect in relation to an NHS trust.]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 96A inserted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53, SIF 113:2), s. 5(1)

F2Words in s. 96A(1) inserted (1.10.2002) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 1(3), 42(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 28(a); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)

F3Words in s. 96A(1) substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 46(a) (with Sch. 2 para. 6)

F4Words in s. 96A(1)(3)(4)(7)(8)(9) inserted (1.10.2002 for W., otherwise prosp.) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 6(2), 42(3), Sch. 5 para. 20; S.I. 2002/2532, art. 2, Sch.

F5Words inserted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 5(8), Sch. 2 para. 23(1)

F6Words in s. 96A(3) inserted (1.10.2002) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 1(3), 42(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 28(b); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)

F7Words in s. 96A(3)(4) substituted (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and otherwise 1.4.1996) by virtue of 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 8(1), Sch. 1 para. 46(b) (with Sch. 2 para. 6)

F8Words in s. 96A(4) inserted (1.10.2002) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 1(3), 42(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 28(c); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)

F9Words and subsections (a)(b) substituted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 5(8), Sch. 2 para. 23(3)

F10Words in s. 96A(5)(b) inserted (1.10.2002) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 1(3), 42(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 28(d); S.I. 2002/2478, art. 3(1)(c)