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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-finance-and-accountability-scotland-act-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2000/1",
  "legislation_title": "Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-finance-and-accountability-scotland-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "NHS trusts",
  "text": "(1) In Schedule 7B to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c.29) (financial provisions relating to NHS trusts), after paragraph 2 insert—\n“Limits on borrowing\n2A In any financial year the net aggregate amount of sums borrowed by NHS trusts shall not exceed the amount specified for that year for the purposes of this paragraph in a Budget Act.\n2B In paragraph 2A above, “net aggregate amount” means the aggregate amount of sums borrowed in the financial year less any repayments made during that year (otherwise than by way of interest) in respect of sums borrowed in that or any other year.”\n(2) Paragraphs 3 and 4 of that Schedule are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2004/7",
      "affecting_title": "National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2000/1/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:30.319406+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."
}