PART 11

Miscellaneous

Transfer schemes

Transfer schemes in respect of previously transferred property
302
1
This section applies in relation to any property, rights or liabilities transferred under a property transfer scheme made under section 300(1) (before its repeal) from a Primary Care Trust, a Strategic Health Authority or the Secretary of State to a Special Health Authority or a qualifying company.
2
The Secretary of State may make a scheme for the transfer of any such property, rights or liabilities from the Special Health Authority or qualifying company to any of the following—
a
a Minister of the Crown;
b
NHS England;
c
an integrated care board;
d
an NHS trust;
e
an NHS foundation trust;
f
a qualifying company.
3
The things that may be transferred under a scheme under this section include—
a
property, rights and liabilities that could not otherwise be transferred;
b
property acquired, and rights and liabilities arising, after the making of the scheme;
c
criminal liabilities, except where transfer is to a Minister of the Crown.
4
A transfer scheme under this section may make supplementary, incidental, transitional and consequential provision and may in particular—
a
create rights, or impose liabilities, in relation to property or rights transferred;
b
make provision about the continuing effect of things done by the transferor in respect of anything transferred;
c
make provision about the continuation of things (including legal proceedings) in the process of being done by, on behalf of or in relation to the transferor in respect of anything transferred;
d
make provision for references to the transferor in an instrument or other document in respect of anything transferred to be treated as references to the transferee.
5
A transfer scheme under this section may make provision for the shared ownership or use of property.
6
A transfer scheme under this section may provide—
a
for the scheme to be modified by agreement after it comes into effect, and
b
for any such modifications to have effect from the date when the original scheme comes into effect.
7
In this section references to the transfer of property include references to the grant of a lease.
8
In this section “
qualifying company
” means—
a
a company which is formed under section 223 of the National Health Service Act 2006 and wholly or partly owned by the Secretary of State or NHS England, or
b
a subsidiary of a company which is formed under that section and wholly owned by the Secretary of State.
S. 302 in force at 1.7.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/1319, art. 2(3)
S. 302 in force at 1.10.2012 for specified purposes by S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2)
S. 302 in force at 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)
S. 302 substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), ss. 89(2), 186(6); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)