Health Services (Financial Provisions) Act, 1947

Standard expenditure for health authorities.

3.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the standard expenditure for a health authority in respect of the year 1948-49 and each subsequent year shall be the sum of the following—

(a) the net health expenditure in respect of the standard year of such health authority,

(b) the net health expenditure in respect of the standard year of each urban sanitary authority whose district is situate in the functional area of such health authority,

(c) the proportion chargeable to such health authority of the net health expenditure in respect of the standard year of each joint authority or port sanitary authority,

(d) the proportion chargeable to each such urban sanitary authority of the net health expenditure in respect of the standard year of each port sanitary authority.

(2) Whenever the Minister makes a declaration under subsection (2) or subsection (3) of section 2 of this Act in relation to a health service, he shall, before the 1st day of April next following the making of the declaration, adjust, in respect of any health authority concerned, the sum, which is then (by virtue of subsection (1) of this section or, if an adjustment has been previously made under this subsection, this subsection) the standard expenditure for such health authority, by—

(a) if the declaration is made under subsection (2) of section 2 of this Act, increasing the said sum by such amount as he considers proper, or

(b) if the declaration is made under subsection (3) of the said section 2 by reducing the said sum by such amount as he thinks proper,

and the said sum as so adjusted shall, subject to any subsequent adjustment under this subsection, become and be, in respect of each year following the adjustment, the standard expenditure for such health authority for the purposes of this Act.