National Health Service Act 2006

215 Trustees and property under section 222

(1) Where property is given in pursuance of section 222 (power of NHS bodies to raise money) to or on trust for any purposes of a hospital for which special trustees have been appointed, the property may be held, administered and applied by the special trustees instead of by the body responsible for the hospital if that body and the special trustees agree.

(2) The body responsible for a hospital is—

(a) in the case of a hospital vested in an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust, that trust, and

(b) in any other case, the Strategic Health Authority or Primary Care Trust exercising functions of the Secretary of State in respect of the hospital.

(3) Subsection (4) applies where property is given in pursuance of section 222—

(a) on trust for any purposes of a Primary Care Trust for which trustees have been appointed under paragraph 12 of Schedule 3,

(b) on trust for any purposes of an NHS trust for which trustees have been appointed under paragraph 10 of Schedule 4, or paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42), or

(c) on trust for any purposes of an NHS foundation trust for which trustees have been appointed under section 51.

(4) Where this subsection applies and the trustees and the Primary Care Trust, NHS trust or NHS foundation trust agree, the property may be held, administered and applied by the trustees instead of by the Primary Care Trust, NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.

(5) Property given in pursuance of section 222 on trust may be transferred by order of the Secretary of State under section 213 or 214 in the same circumstances as other trust property may be transferred under either of those sections.