(1)It is the duty of every Local Health Board, in respect of each financial year, to perform its functions so as to secure that the expenditure of the Board which is attributable to the performance by the Board of its functions in that year (not including expenditure within subsection (1)(a) of section 97F above) does not exceed the aggregate of—
(a)the amount allotted to it for that year under subsection (1)(b) of that section;
(b)any sums received by it in that year under any provision of this Act (other than sums received by it under that section); and
(c)any sums received by it in that year otherwise than under this Act for the purpose of enabling it to defray any such expenditure.
(2)The National Assembly for Wales may give such directions to a Local Health Board as appear to be requisite to secure that the Board complies with the duty imposed on it by subsection (1) above.
(3)Directions under subsection (2) may be specific in character.
(4)To the extent to which—
(a)any expenditure is defrayed by a Local Health Board as trustee or on behalf of a Local Health Board by special trustees; or
(b)any sums are received by a Local Health Board as trustee or under section 96A above,
that expenditure and, subject to subsection (6) below, those sums shall be disregarded for the purposes of this section.
(5)For the purposes of this section sums which, in the hands of a Local Health Board, cease to be trust funds and become applicable by the Local Health Board otherwise than as trustee shall be treated, on their becoming so applicable, as having been received by the Local Health Board otherwise than as trustee.
(6)Of the sums received by a Local Health Board under section 96A above so much only as accrues to the Local Health Board after defraying any expenses incurred in obtaining them shall be disregarded under subsection (4) above.
(7)Subject to subsection (4) above, the National Assembly for Wales may by directions determine—
(a)whether specified sums are, or are not, to be treated for the purposes of this section as received under this Act by a specified Local Health Board;
(b)whether specified expenditure is, or is not, to be treated for those purposes as expenditure within subsection (1) above of a specified Local Health Board; or
(c)the extent to which, and the circumstances in which, sums received by a Local Health Board under section 97F above but not yet spent are to be treated for the purposes of this section as part of the expenditure of the Local Health Board and to which financial year’s expenditure they are to be attributed.
(8)In subsection (7) above, “specified” means of a description specified in the directions.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 97F-97H inserted (10.10.2002 for W.) by National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17), ss. 9, 42(3); S.I. 2002/2532, art. 2, Sch.