SCHEDULE 2Transfers of Property, Rights and Liabilities

Transfer schemes

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1

The Welsh Ministers may, in connection with the abolition of Community Health Councils, make one or more transfer schemes.

2

A transfer scheme is a scheme providing for the transfer to the Citizen Voice Body of any property, rights and liabilities mentioned in sub-paragraph (3).

3

The property, rights and liabilities are property and rights acquired, or liabilities incurred, by—

a

the Welsh Ministers;

b

a Local Health Board;

c

an NHS trust.

4

The things that may be transferred under a transfer scheme include—

a

property, rights and liabilities which could not otherwise be transferred;

b

property acquired, and rights and liabilities arising, after the making of the scheme.

5

A transfer scheme may make consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional or transitory provision.

6

By virtue of sub-paragraph (5), a transfer scheme may, for example—

a

create rights, or impose liabilities, in relation to property or rights transferred;

b

make provision about the continuing effect of things done in respect of anything transferred;

c

make provision about the continuation of things (including legal proceedings) in the process of being done in respect of anything transferred;

d

make provision for the shared ownership or use of property;

e

make provision for references to the Welsh Government or the Welsh Ministers, or references to a Local Health Board or an NHS trust, in an instrument or other document in respect of anything transferred to be treated as references to the Citizen Voice Body;

f

make provision which is the same as or similar to a provision made by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/246) in a case where those regulations do not apply in relation to the transfer.

7

A transfer scheme may provide—

a

for modification by agreement;

b

for modifications to have effect from the date when the scheme came into effect.

8

The Welsh Ministers must lay a copy of any transfer scheme before the National Assembly for Wales.

9

In this paragraph—

a

references to rights and liabilities include references to rights and liabilities arising in relation to a contract of employment;

b

references to the transfer of property include references to the grant of a lease.