Notwithstanding anything contained in the constitution or rules of any voluntary organisation formed for the purpose of providing a service of nurses for attendance on the sick in their own homes or of midwives, or in any trust deed or other instrument relating to any such organisation or service, any property vested in the organisation or held by any persons on trust for the organisation or service or for any specific purposes connected with the organisation or service may be transferred to a local health authority, on such terms as may be agreed between the authority and the organisation or trustees, with a view to the property being used or held by the authority for purposes similar to the purposes for which it was previously used or held.

This section shall be deemed to have had effect as from the fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and forty-eight.