3Supplementary payments to NHS trusts and Primary Care Trusts
(1)After paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (which makes financial provision about NHS trusts) there shall be inserted—
“Supplementary payments
5A(1)If the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to do so, he may make a payment to the trust.
(2)The payment may be subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, including conditions as to repayment.”
(2)In section 9 of the 1990 Act (financial provisions relating to NHS trusts), in subsection (9), after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—
“(ca)the making of supplementary payments to them;”.
(3)In section 97C of the 1977 Act (public funding of Primary Care Trusts), after subsection (5) there shall be inserted—
“(5A)If the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to do so, he may make a supplementary payment to a Primary Care Trust, which may be subject to such conditions as he thinks fit to impose, including conditions as to repayment.”
(4)In section 97D of the 1977 Act (financial duties of Primary Care Trusts), in subsection (1)(b), after “section” there shall be inserted “, apart from subsection (5A)”.