National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

9 Originating capital debt of, and other financial provisions relating to NHS trusts. E+W

(1) Each NHS trust shall have an [F1 originating capital] of an amount specified in an order made by the Secretary of State, being an amount representing, subject to subsection (2) below, the excess of the valuation of the assets which, on or in connection with the establishment of the trust, are or are to be transferred to it (whether before, on or after its operational date) over the amounts of the liabilities which are or are to be so transferred.

(2) In determining the [F1 originating capital] of an NHS trust, there shall be left out of account such assets or, as the case may be, liabilities as are, or are of a class, determined for the purposes of this section by the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury.

(3) An NHS trust’s [F1 originating capital] shall be deemed to have been issued out of moneys provided by Parliament and shall constitute an asset of the Consolidated Fund.

[F2 (4) An NHS trust’s originating capital shall be public dividend capital.]

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(7) With the consent of the Treasury, the Secretary of State may determine

[F4 (a) the dividend which is to be payable at any time on any public dividend capital issued, or treated as issued, under this Act,

(b) the amount of any such public dividend capital which is to be repaid at any time,

(c) any other terms on which any public dividend capital is so issued, or treated as issued]

(8) An order under subsection (1) above shall be made—

(a) with the consent of the Treasury; and

(b) by statutory instrument.

(9) Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect with respect to—

(a) borrowing by NHS trusts;

(b) the limits on their indebtedness;

(c) the payment of additional public dividend capital to them;

[F5 (ca) the making of supplementary payments to them;] and

(d) the application of any surplus funds of NHS trusts.

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Words in s. 9(1)(2)(3) substituted (1.9.1999 for E. and 1.11.1999 for W.) by 1999 c. 8, s. 15(1)(2); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/3184, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F2 S. 9(4) substituted (1.9.1999 for E. and 1.11.1999 for W.) by 1999 c. 8, s. 15(1)(3); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/3184, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F3 S. 9(5)(6) omitted (1.9.1999 for E. and 1.11.1999 for W.) by virtue of 1999 c. 8, s. 15(1)(4); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/3184, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; and those same subsections expressed to be repealed (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 8, s. 65(2), Sch. 5; S.I. 2000/1041, art. 2(d), Sch.

F4 S. 9(7)(a)-(c) substituted (1.9.1999 for E. and 1.11.1999 for W.) for words in s. 9(7) by 1999 c. 8, s. 15(1)(5); S.I. 1999/2342, art. 2(1), Sch. 1; S.I. 1999/3184, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F5 S. 9(ca) inserted (1.8.2001 for E. and 1.7.2002 for W.) by 2001 c. 15, s. 3(2), (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2001/2804, art. 2(1)(a); S.I. 2002/1475, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 9: Treasury consent requirements continued (W.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1