Part IV Property and Finance

Finance and Accounts

97BF1 Financial duties of Family Practitioner Committees.

1

It is the duty of every F2Family Practitioner CommitteeF2Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales, in respect of each financial year, so to perform their functions as to secure that the expenditure attributable to the performance of those functions in that year, other than expenditure F3such as is mentioned in section 97(1)(b)(iii) above, does not exceed the aggregate of—

a

the amounts allotted to the Committee for that year under section 97(1) above;

b

any other sums received by the Committee under this Act in that year; and

c

any sums received otherwise than under this Act in that year by the Committee for the purpose of enabling the Committee to defray any such expenditure

F4and any reference in subsections (2) and (4) below to a Family Health Services Authority is a reference to an Authority whose locality is in Wales.

2

The Secretary of State may give such directions to a Family Practitioner Committee as appear to him to be requisite to secure that the Committee comply with the duty imposed on them by subsection (1) above and it shall be the duty of the Committee to comply with the direction.

3

Directions under subsection (2) above may be specific in character.

4

The Secretary of State may, by directions, determine—

a

whether sums of a description specified in the directions are or are not to be treated for the purposes of this section as being receivable under this Act by a Family Practitioner Committee for the purpose of their functions;

b

whether expenditure of a description specified in the directions is or is not to be treated for the purposes of this section as being attributable to a Family Practitioner Committee’s performance of their functions; or

c

the extent to which and the circumstances in which sums received but not yet spent by a Family Practitioner Committee under section 97(1) above are to be treated for the purposes of this section as part of the expenditure of the Committee attributable to the performance of their functions and to which financial year’s expenditure in the performance of such functions they are to be attributed.