Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c. 15)

Part 1 U.K. National Health Service

Health service funding E+W

Valid from 30/09/2002

2 Payments relating to past performance E+W

(1) Section 97 of the 1977 Act (means of meeting expenditure of Health Authorities out of public funds) shall be amended as follows.

(2) For subsection (3C) there shall be substituted—

“(3C) Where the Secretary of State has made an initial determination of the amount (“the initial amount”) to be allotted for any year to a Health Authority under subsection (3) above, he may increase the initial amount by a further sum if it appears to him that over a period notified to the Authority—

(a) they satisfied any objectives notified to them as objectives to be met in performing their functions, or

(b) they performed well against any criteria notified to them as criteria relevant to the satisfactory performance of their functions (whether or not the method of measuring their performance against those criteria was also notified to them).”

(3) In subsection (3D), for “Health Authorities” there shall be substituted “ the Health Authority ”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 2 partly in force; s. 2 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 70(1); s. 2 in force for E. at 30.9.2002 by S.I. 2002/2363, art. 2(1) (subject to art. 2(2))