http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/223NNational Health Service Act 2006An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to the health service.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-05-05Expert Participation2026-05-05 Part 11 Property and financeChapter 6Finance<Addition ChangeId="key-164a6ad914592bdc60b0f4e23d1a2f53-1664284059450" CommentaryRef="key-164a6ad914592bdc60b0f4e23d1a2f53">Joint duties of an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts</Addition><Addition ChangeId="key-164a6ad914592bdc60b0f4e23d1a2f53-1664284059450" CommentaryRef="key-164a6ad914592bdc60b0f4e23d1a2f53">Financial duties of integrated care boards etc: additional controls on resource use</Addition>223N1NHS England may direct an integrated care board and its partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to exercise their functions with a view to—aensuring that local capital resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified;bensuring that local revenue resource use in a financial year which is attributable to matters specified in the direction does not exceed an amount so specified.2A direction under subsection (1) may—aspecify descriptions of resources which must, or must not, be treated as local capital resources or local revenue resources for the purposes of the direction;bspecify uses of local capital resources or local revenue resources which must, or must not, be taken into account for the purposes of the direction.3Any directions given under section 223M(3) or (4) apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 223M.4In this section “local capital resource use” and “local revenue resource use” have the meaning given by section 223M(2).Ss. 223L-223O and cross-headings inserted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 29(5), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 34)