HC Deb 14 March 1990 vol 169 cc629-30

21A. In each of sections 81 (Charges for more expensive supplies) and 82 (Charges for repairs and replacement necessitated by an act or omission of the person supplied etc.) of the principal Act, in paragraph (a)—

  1. (a) after the words "Secretary of State" there shall be inserted "or an NHS trust"; and
  2. (b) after the word "him" there shall be inserted "or, as the case may be, by the trust".'.

No. 108, in page 64, line 7, at end insert— '(3) In subsection (5) for the words from "Area or District" onwards there shall be substituted "body responsible for the hospital if that body and the special trustees agree; and in this subsection the body responsible for a hospital is,—

  1. (a) in the case of a hospital vested in a NHS trust, that trust; and
  2. (b) in any other case, the District Health Authority exercising functions on behalf of the Secretary of State in respect of the hospital".

(4) After subsection (5) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—

"(5A) Where property is given in pursuance of this section on trust for any purposes of an NHS trust for which trustees have been appointed under section 11(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, then, if those trustees and the NHS trust agree, the property may be held, administered and applied by those trustees instead of by the NHS trust."

(5) In subsection (6) of that section for the words "or to special trustees" there shall be substituted "to an NHS trust or to special trustees or trustees for an NHS trust".'

No. 274, in page 64, line 11, at end insert— `(2) After subsection (2A) of that section there shall be inserted— (2B) in preparing its annual accounts in pursuance of subsection (2) above, an NHS trust shall comply with any directions given by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury as to—

  1. (a) the methods and principles according to which the accounts are to be prepared; and
  2. (b) the mnformation to be given in the accounts.".'

No. 109, in page 64, line 18, at end insert— 'Use and development of consecrated land and burial grounds

24A. Section 128 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (use and development of consecrated land and burial grounds) applies to consecrated land and land comprised in a burial ground, within the meaning of that section, which an NHS trust holds for any of its purposes as if—

  1. (a) that land had been acquired by the trust as mentioned in subsection (1) of that section; and
  2. (b) the trust were a statutory undertaker, within the meaning of that Act.'

No. 110, in page 64, line 26, leave out 'purported' and insert 'purporting'.

No. 111, in page 65, line 3, at end add `and any such order may include provisions corresponding to those of section 8 of this Act'.—[Mr. Kenneth Clarke.]

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