National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

169 Power to raise money

(1) This section applies to any—

(a) Local Health Board,

(b) NHS trust, or

(c) Special Health Authority.

(2) A body to which this section applies has power to engage in activities intended to stimulate the giving (whether on trust or otherwise) of money or other property to—

(a) assist the body in providing or improving any services or any facilities or accommodation which is or are, or will be, provided as part of the health service, or

(b) assist it in connection with its functions with respect to research.

(3) Subject to any directions of the Welsh Ministers excluding specified descriptions of activity, the activities authorised by this section include—

(a) public appeals or collections,

(b) competitions,

(c) entertainments,

(d) bazaars,

(e) sales of produce or other goods, and

(f) other similar activities.

(4) The activities may involve the use of land, premises or other property held by or for the benefit of the body exercising the power.

(5) Subsection (4) is subject to any restrictions on the purposes for which trust property may be used.

(6) Subject to this section and section 163, the body at whose instance property is given in pursuance of this section must, after defraying out of it any expenses incurred in obtaining it, hold, administer and apply the property on trust for or for the purpose for which it was given.

(7) Where property held by a body under this section is more than sufficient to enable the purpose for which it was given to be fulfilled, the excess is applicable, in default of any provision for its application made by the trust or other instrument under or in accordance with which the property comprising the excess was given, for such purposes connected with any of the functions of the body as it considers appropriate.

(8) Where property held by a body under this section is insufficient to enable the purpose for which it was given to be fulfilled the body may apply so much of the capital or income at its disposal as is needed to enable the purpose to be fulfilled.

(9) Subsection (8) is subject in the case of trust property to any restrictions on the purpose for which the trust property may be applied and, in the case of money paid or payable by the Welsh Ministers under section 171, to any directions they may give.

(10) Where the capital or income applicable under subsection (8) is insufficient or is not applied to enable the purpose to be fulfilled, the property held by the body is applicable, in default of any provision for its application made by the trust or other instrument under or in accordance with which the property was given, for such purposes connected with any of the functions of the body as it considers appropriate.

(11) Where under subsection (7) or (10) property becomes applicable for purposes other than that for which it was given the body applying the property must have regard to the desirability of applying it for a purpose similar to that for which it was given.

(12) References in this section to the purposes for which trust property may be used or applied include, in the case of trust property which has been transferred under section 161 or 162, references to those purposes as enlarged by section 164.