Health Act 1999

29 Payments by NHS bodies to local authorities.E+W

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(1)Section 28A of the 1977 Act (power to make payments towards expenditure on community services) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (1) (authorities to which section applies)—

(a)for “authorities” there is substituted “ bodies ”,

(b)for paragraph (b) (which specifies a Special Health Authority established for a London Post-Graduate Teaching Hospital) there is substituted—

(b)a Primary Care Trust.

(3)After subsection (2) there is inserted—

(2A)A body to which this section applies may, if they think fit, make payments to a local authority towards expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the authority in connection with the performance of any of the authority’s functions which, in the opinion of the body,—

(a)have an effect on the health of any individuals,

(b)have an effect on, or are affected by, any NHS functions, or

(c)are connected with any NHS functions.

(2B)In this section “NHS functions” means functions exercised by a Health Authority, Special Health Authority, Primary Care Trust or NHS trust.

Commencement Information

I1S. 29 wholly in force at repeal; s. 29 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 67(1); s. 29(1) in force for certain purposes (E.) at 1.11.1999 by S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1; S. 29(2)(a)(3) in force (E.) at 1.11.1999 by S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1; s. 29 in force insofar as not already in force (E.) at 1.4.2000 by S.I. 1999/2793, art. 2(3)(b); s. 29(2) wholly in force (W.) and s. 29(1)(3) in force for certain purposes (W.) at 1.12.2000 by S.I. 2000/2991, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; s. 29 in force so far as not already in 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. 6(a)