Section 14 Abolition of authorities.

England, Wales and Northern Ireland

(1)

All Regional Hospital Boards, Hospital Management Committees and Executive Councils, the Joint Pricing Committee for England, the Welsh Joint Pricing Committee and, except as provided by the following section, all Boards of Governors shall cease to exist on the appointed day; and on that day any authority which is a local health authority by virtue of section 19 of the principal Act shall cease to be a local health authority and all joint boards constituted in pursuance of that section shall cease to exist.

(2)

The Secretary of State may by order make such provision as he considers appropriate in anticipation or in consequence of the abolition by the preceding subsection of any body or in connection with the winding up of the body’s affairs; and if a body abolished by that subsection has, as respects a period before the appointed day, not performed a duty imposed on the body by F1subsection (1) or (2) of section 98 of the M1National Health Service Act 1977 (which relate to accounts), then—

(a)

it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to secure that the duty so imposed is performed by a Regional or Area F2or District Health Authority or special health authority determined by him; and

(b)

that section shall have effect in relation to the body and period in question as if for references to each financial year in subsections F3(2) and (4) there were substituted references to that period and as if the word “annual” in subsection (2) were omitted.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words substituted by National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), s. 129, Sch. 15 para. 58
F2: Words inserted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Sch. 1 para. 23(1)(2)
F3: Figure substituted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Sch. 1 para. 23(1)(2)

Marginal citations

M1: 1977 c. 49.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (28.6.1995 for specified purposes and 1.4.1996 otherwise) by 1995 c. 17, ss. 2(1)(3), 4(2), 5, 8, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 98, Sch. 3 (with s. 4(1), Sch. 2 paras. 6, 12, 16); and functions of Act in so far as still in force transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1; and Sch. 4 para. 92 expressed to be repealed (1.5.2004) by 2003 c. 42, s. 141, Sch. 7; S.I. 2004/874, art. 2