Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 1416
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND ACCOUNTS
The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Summarised Accounts of Special Health Authorities) Order 2004
Made
24th May 2004
Laid before Parliament
24th May 2004
Coming into force
14th June 2004
Whereas the Treasury, having regard to information contained or to be contained in resource accounts of the Department of Health prepared pursuant to section 5 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act, 2000( 1 ) (Departmental Accounts), consider that the preparation of summarised accounts for the bodies listed in the Schedule to this Order is unnecessary for a financial year ending on 31st March 2004, 31st March 2005, or 31st March 2006;
Now, therefore, the Treasury, having consulted the Comptroller and Auditor General and in exercise of the power conferred on them by section 14 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000, hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Summarised Accounts of Special Health Authorities) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 14th June 2004.
Summarised Accounts of Special Health Authorities
2.Section 98(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977( 2 ) (requirement to prepare summarised accounts) shall not apply in relation to the Special Health Authorities( 3 ) listed in the Schedule for a financial year ending on 31st March 2004, 31st March 2005, or 31st March 2006.
Jim Murphy
John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
24th May 2004
Article 2
SCHEDULE 1
NHSU
NHS Pensions Agency
1977 c. 49 ; section 98(4) was amended by the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41) , section 12 and Schedule 5, paragraph 5. Section 98(4) of the National Health Service Act 1977 applies to bodies mentioned in section 98(1) of that Act, which was amended to include Special Health Authorities by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) , section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 50(a).
Special Health Authorities are established by orders made under section 11 of the National Health Service Act 1977, which was amended by the Health Authorities Act 1995, section 2(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 2, and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) , section 65 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 4 and 6.