A Health Board F4or (in connection with the exercise of its health service functions only) HISF2or 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 them in providing or improving any services or any facilities or accommodation which 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.

A local health council shall have power to engage in activities intended to stimulate the giving (whether on trust or otherwise) of money or other property to assist them in carrying out any function conferred upon them by or under any enactment.

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 Board F3, NHS trust or local health council exercising the power F5or, as the case may be, by or for the benefit of HIS, subject however to any restrictions on the purposes for which trust property may be used.

Subject to subsections (5) and (6), the Health Board F3, NHS trust or local health council 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.

Subsection (4) applies (subject to the subsections mentioned there) to HIS in respect of property given in pursuance of this section as it applies to a Health Board in respect of such property given at the instance of the Health Board.

Where property held by a Health Board F7or by HISF3, NHS trust or local health council 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 Board F3, NHS trust or council as the Board F3, NHS trust or council think fit F8or, as the case may be, of HIS as HIS thinks fit..

Where under subsections (5) or (6) property becomes applicable for purposes other than that for which it was given, the Health Board F13or, as the case may be, HISF3, NHS trust or local health council shall have regard to the desirability of applying the property for a purpose similar to that for which it was given.