Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 8A inserted (15.2.2010 for specified purposes) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), s. 40(1), Sch. 2; S.I. 2010/30, art. 3(c)
8(1)The accounting date of the NHS trust is 31 March.E+W
(2)The first accounting period of the NHS trust begins with the first day of the financial year in which the de-authorisation order takes effect (and for that purpose the body is to be treated as having been an NHS trust with effect from that day).
(3)But the Secretary of State may direct that the trust's first accounting period begins with the first day of the following financial year.
(4)Paragraphs 24 and 25 of Schedule 7 apply to the body, as if it continued to be a public benefit corporation, in respect of any financial year before the NHS trust's first accounting period.]