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Health Act 2006

311.The policy of the Department is that there should be a power to transfer the criminal liabilities of NHS bodies on their dissolution or abolition to other NHS bodies so that accountability for criminal offences committed by any such bodies can be retained within the NHS and will not wither away. Section 74, therefore, gives the Secretary of State for Health the power to transfer the criminal liabilities of any English NHS body on its abolition or dissolution to another specified English NHS body and the National Assembly for Wales the power to transfer the criminal liabilities of a Welsh Special Health Authority, a Local Health Board and a Welsh NHS Trust on its abolition or dissolution to another specified Welsh NHS body.

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