National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41)

Part 2 E+W Health service bodies

Chapter 5 E+W NHS foundation trusts

Failure E+W

[F1 52A Application of sections 52B to 52E E+W

(1) Sections 52B to 52E apply to—

(a) an NHS foundation trust authorised under section 35 on an application under section 33;

(b) an NHS foundation trust established under section 56 to which subsection (2) applies.

(2) This subsection applies to an NHS foundation trust if—

(a) at least one of the trusts on whose application the NHS foundation trust was established was an NHS foundation trust within subsection (1)(a), or was an NHS trust all or most of whose hospitals, establishments and facilities were in England, or

(b) the NHS foundation trust is the result of a succession of mergers under section 56, any of which involved an NHS foundation trust within subsection (1)(a) or an NHS trust all or most of whose hospitals, establishments and facilities were in England.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 52A-52E inserted (19.1.2010 for specified purposes) by Health Act 2009 (c. 21), ss. 15, 40(1); S.I. 2010/30, art. 2(c)