The Homes and Communities Agency (Transfer of Property etc.) Regulations 2018

Made: 8th January 2018

Laid before Parliament: 10th January 2018

Coming into force: 31st January 2018

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 53A(2) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Homes and Communities Agency (Transfer of Property etc.) Regulations 2018.

• (2) These Regulations come into force on 31st January 2018.

Specified public bodies

2

The public bodies listed in the Schedule to these Regulations are specified under section 53A(2) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008.

SCHEDULE — Specified Public Bodies

• Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust[^f00002]

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust[^f00003]

• Cambridgeshire Community Services National Health Service Trust[^f00004]

• East Lancashire Hospitals National Health Service Trust[^f00005]

• East Sussex Healthcare National Health Service Trust[^f00006]

• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust[^f00007]

• George Eliot Hospital National Health Service Trust[^f00008]

• Leicestershire Partnership National Health Service Trust[^f00009]

• Medway NHS Foundation Trust[^f00010]

• Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust[^f00011]

• Solent National Health Service Trust[^f00012]

• Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust[^f00013]

• Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust[^f00014]

• The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust[^f00015]

• The Royal Wolverhampton National Health Service Trust[^f00016]

• University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust[^f00017]

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Alok Sharma — Minister of State — Department for Communities and Local Government — 8th January 2018

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 53A(1) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17) allows the Secretary of State to make one or more schemes for the transfer to the Homes and Communities Agency of designated property, rights or liabilities of a specified public body. These Regulations specify various NHS Trusts for that purpose.

The Homes and Communities Agency (Transfer of Property etc.) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1471), the Homes and Communities Agency (Transfer of Property etc.) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/515) and the Homes and Communities Agency (Transfer of Property etc) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/199) specify other public bodies for the same purpose.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors. An Explanatory Memorandum is available alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2008 c. 17. Section 53A was inserted by section 31(2) of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: See S.I. 1991/2325 and S.I. 2002/2617. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 6 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) with effect from 1 April 2004.

[^f00003]: See S.I. 2003/2427. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c. 41) with effect from 1 June 2008.

[^f00004]: See S.I. 2010/727.

[^f00005]: See S.I. 2002/2073.

[^f00006]: See S.I. 2003/216 and 2011/1185.

[^f00007]: See S.I. 1991/2350. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 6 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 with effect from 1 April 2005.

[^f00008]: See S.I. 1993/2551.

[^f00009]: See S.I. 1998/3069 and S.I. 1998/3069.

[^f00010]: See S.I. 1993/2640. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with effect from 1 April 2008.

[^f00011]: See S.I. 1993/2896 and S.I 2003/760. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with effect from 1 July 2008.

[^f00012]: See S.I. 2011/804.

[^f00013]: See S.I. 1990/2445 and S.I 1997/2938. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 6 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 with effect from 1 June 2006.

[^f00014]: See S.I. 1991/2401 and S.I. 2010/2229. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with effect from 1 April 2016.

[^f00015]: See S.I. 1994/168. Authorised as an NHS Foundation Trust under section 35 of the National Health Service Act 2006 with effect from 1 October 2008.

[^f00016]: See S.I. 1993/2574 and S.I. 2012/1837.

[^f00017]: See S.I. 1999/2921.