Part 1 National Health Service

Health service funding

I11 Determination of allotments to and resource limits for Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts

1

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—

3AA

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).

3

In section 97AA (resource limits for Health Authorities and Special Health Authorities), after subsection (2) there shall be inserted—

2A

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).

4

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5

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