National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978

11 Scottish Hospital Trust.S

(1)The Secretary of State shall constitute a Scottish Hospital Trust (hereafter in this Act referred to as “the Hospital Trust”).

(2)Schedule 6 shall have effect in relation to the Hospital Trust.

(3)It shall be the duty of the Hospital Trust to hold and administer endowments which were transferred to the Hospital Trust under section 2 of the M1Hospital Endowments (Scotland) Act 1971.

(4)References in this Act to a “relevant endowment” are references to an endowment such as is referred to in subsection (3).

(5)The Hospital Trust shall cause proper accounts to be kept of the capital, income and expenditure vested in, received by, and expended by them, and shall cause [F1such accounts to be audited and] an abstract thereof to be published in such manner as the Secretary of State may approve.

(6)The Hospital Trust shall give to Health Boards reasonable access to the accounts above mentioned.

(7)The Hospital Trust shall make an annual report of their proceedings to the Secretary of State, which report shall include an abstract of the accounts; and the Secretary of State shall lay any such report annually before each House of Parliament.