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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reorganisation-act-1973-repealed-2861995/section-24",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/32",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (repealed 28.6.1995)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-reorganisation-act-1973-repealed-2861995",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Transfer of trust property from abolished authorities.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following subsection, property held immediately before the abolition of a preserved Board on trust by a body specified in column 1 of the Table below . . . shall on that abolition be transferred to and vest in the person specified in the relevant entry in column 2 of that Table.\nTable\n1.\n2\nExisting trustees\nNew trustees\nA regional hospital board in England.\nSuch one or more of the Regional Health Authorities as may be specified by an order made by the Secretary of State.\nThe Welsh Hospital Board\nSuch one or more Area Health Authorities District Health Authorities or special health authorities in Wales as may be specified by an order made by the Secretary of State.\nA Hospital Management Committee (other than a University Hospital Management Committee) holding any property on trust for one or more hospitals.\nThe Area or District Health Authority or a special health authority or Authorities responsible for the administration of the hospitals.\nA University Hospital Management Committee.\nThe Special Trustees appointed for the university hospital.\nA Board of Governors\nThe Special Trustees appointed for the teaching hospital.\n(2) If not less than four weeks before the abolition of a preserved Board a University Hospital Management Committee or Board of Governors requests the Secretary of State in writing to secure that property held immediately before the abolition of that preserved Board by the Committee or Board is not transferred to and vested in Special Trustees by virtue of the preceding subsection, he may by an order made before that abolition provide that the property shall be treated for the purposes of that subsection as if it were held immediately before that day by a Hospital Management Committee which is not a University Hospital Management Committee.\n(3) Where the Secretary of State has arranged before the appointed day for an Area Health Authority (Teaching) established before that day—\n(a) to become responsible for the administration of a hospital or group of hospitals controlled and managed by a Hospital Management Committee which is not a University Hospital Management Committee; and\n(b) not to become responsible on that day for the administration of any hospital which immediately before that day was controlled and managed by a University Hospital Management Committee or a Board of Governors,\nhe may by an order made before that day specify the hospital or group in question and provide that for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section and section 29(1) of this Act the Hospital Management Committee shall be deemed to be a University Hospital Management Committee and the hospital or group shall be deemed to be designated as a university hospital.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53), Sch. 1 para. 23(1)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.I. 1982/75, art. 2(3)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/32/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:47:15.419432+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."
}