{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-215",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/section-215.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/41",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006",
  "path": "section/215",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "215",
  "heading": "Trustees and property under section 222",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Subsection (4) applies where property is given in pursuance of section 222—\n(za) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(zb) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) on trust for any purposes of an NHS trust for which trustees have been appointed under ... paragraph 10 of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42), ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where this subsection applies and the trustees and NHS England, clinical commissioning group, ... NHS trust or NHS foundation trust agree, the property may be held, administered and applied by the trustees instead of by NHS England, clinical commissioning group, ... NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.\n(5) Property given in pursuance of section 222 on trust may be transferred by order of the Secretary of State under section 213 or 214 in the same circumstances as other trust property may be transferred under either of those sections.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 215(1)(2) omitted (17.6.2021) by virtue of NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016 (c. 10), s. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(a); S.I. 2021/712, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 215(3)(za) omitted (17.6.2021) by virtue of NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016 (c. 10), s. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(b)(i); S.I. 2021/712, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 215(3)(zb) omitted (17.6.2021) by virtue of NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016 (c. 10), s. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(b)(i); S.I. 2021/712, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 215(3)(a) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 111(3)(b); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(3)(b) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 7 para. 4; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 215(3)(c) and word omitted (17.6.2021) by virtue of NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016 (c. 10), s. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 4(b)(i); S.I. 2021/712, reg. 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(4) inserted (1.10.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 111(4)(a); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 1 para. 1(1)(2); S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(4) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 111(4)(b); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 215(4) inserted (1.10.2012) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 4 para. 111(4)(c); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/10",
      "affecting_title": "NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/10",
      "affecting_title": "NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2016/10",
      "affecting_title": "NHS (Charitable Trusts Etc) Act 2016"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/section/215",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:55.183741+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}