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"the NHS Act" means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006[3].

Designated receipts
     2. —(1) Receipts of any description specified in paragraph (2), so far as they are received by or on behalf of the persons or bodies specified in relation to these receipts, shall be designated receipts for the purposes of section 120(3) to (6) of the Act.

    (2) The specified descriptions of receipts are—

(a) interest received by the Welsh Ministers or by the National Assembly for Wales Commission, other than interest on—


(i) any loan made by the Welsh Minsters to an NHS Trust under paragraph 3 of schedule 4 to the NHS Act,

(ii) outstanding sums issued in fulfilment of any guarantee given by the Welsh Ministers under paragraph 4 of schedule 4 to the NHS Act,

(iii) any other payment made to an NHS Trust by the Welsh Ministers under paragraph 7 of schedule 4 to the NHS Act,

(iv) sums received from or on behalf of any of the institutions of the European Union, and

(v) any loan made under section 1 of the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975[4],



(b) repayments to the Welsh Ministers of loans made by the former Housing for Wales[5], and

(c) repayments to the Welsh Ministers of the outstanding principal amounts under a loan made by the Secretary of State for Wales to Dyfed County Council on 21 December 1979 in the sum of £4 million to be applied towards the reconstruction of the Cleddau bridge.

Transitional Provisions
     3. Until the end of the initial period[6] any reference to the Welsh Ministers or to the National Assembly for Wales Commission in this Order has effect as a reference to the National Assembly for Wales constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998[7].


Claire Ward

Frank Roy
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

14th March 2007

[2] Paragraph 56 of Schedule 11 provides that until the end of the initial period (as defined in section 161(5)) section 120 has effect as if the requirement for the Treasury to consult the Welsh Ministers prior to making an order under section 120(3) were a requirement to consult the National Assembly for Wales constituted by the Government of Wales Act 1998.back

[3] 2006 c. 42.back

[4] 1975 c.70.back

[5] Part II of the Housing Act 1988 c.50 established Housing for Wales to take over the responsibilities and powers in Wales of the Housing Corporation (an England, Wales and Scotland body established by the Housing Act 1964). The functions, property, rights and liabilities of Housing for Wales were transferred to the Secretary of State for Wales by the Government of Wales Act 1998, sections 140 to 143 and Schedule 16; and subsequently from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by section 23(1) of that Act and the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1. The Government of Wales Act 2006, sections 162 and paragraphs 30 and 39 of Schedule 11, transfers the functions, property, rights and liabilities of the National Assembly for Wales to the Welsh Ministers at the end of the initial period ( see footnote (c)).back

[6] "the initial period" is defined in section 161(5) of the Act as the period beginning with the day of the poll at the 2007 Assembly election and ending with the day on which the first appointment of the First Minister is made under section 46.back

[7] 1998 c. 38back

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