Part 1 National Health Service
Health service funding
I11 Determination of allotments to and resource limits for Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts
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Part 4 of the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49) (property and finance) shall be amended as follows.
2
In section 97 (payments to Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities), after subsection (3) there shall be inserted—
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In determining the amount to be allotted for any year to a Health Authority under subsection (3) above (or in varying the amount under subsection (5) below), the Secretary of State may take into account (in whatever way he thinks appropriate)—
a
the Authority’s general Part 2 expenditure, and
b
expenditure which would have been the Authority’s general Part 2 expenditure but for an order under section 103(1) below,
during any period he thinks appropriate (or such elements of that expenditure as he thinks appropriate).
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In section 97AA (resource limits for Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities), after subsection (2) there shall be inserted—
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But in specifying an amount for a Health Authority under subsection (1) above (or in varying the amount under subsection (6) below), the Secretary of State may take into account (in whatever way he thinks appropriate)—
a
any such use of resources, and
b
the use of any resources which would have been for the purpose of the Authority’s general Part 2 expenditure but for an order under section 103(1) below,
during any period he thinks appropriate (or such elements of such uses of resources as he thinks appropriate).
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