National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

13 Financial duties in relation to Family Health Services Authorities

(1) Section 97A of the principal Act (financial duties of health authorities) shall be amended in accordance with subsections (2) to (4) below.

(2) In subsection (1) for the words from “the expenditure attributable” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted—

“(a) the expenditure attributable to the performance by the Regional Health Authority of its functions in that year, and

(b) the expenditure attributable to the performance by the District Health Authorities whose districts are in the region of their functions in that year, and

(c) the expenditure attributable to the performance by each Family Health Services Authority in relation to which the Regional Health Authority is the relevant Regional Health Authority of the Family Health Services Authority’s functions in that year, other than expenditure falling within section 97(1)(aa) above,

does not exceed the aggregate of—

(i) the amounts allotted to the Regional Health Authority for that year under section 97(1)(a) above;

(ii) any other sums received under this Act, other than under section 97(1)(aa) above, in that year by the Regional Health Authority or by the District Health Authorities or Family Health Services Authorities concerned; and

(iii) any sums received otherwise than under this Act in that year by any of those Authorities for the purpose of enabling them to defray any such expenditure”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a) for the words “Area Health Authority and every District Health Authority” there shall be substituted “District Health Authority and every Family Health Services Authority”;

(b) in paragraph (a) of that subsection after the word “above” there shall be inserted “other than section 97(1)(aa)”.

(4) In subsection (4) after the words “health authority” there shall be inserted “or Family Health Services Authority”.

(5) In section 97B of the principal Act, in subsection (1)—

(a) for the words “Family Practitioner Committee” there shall be substituted “Family Health Services Authority whose locality is in Wales”; and

(b) at the end there shall be added the words “and any reference in subsections (2) and (4) below to a Family Health Services Authority is a reference to an Authority whose locality is in Wales”.