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Expenses of the Council prior to transfer day.
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20.—(1) The expenses of the Council prior to the transfer day shall, to the extent that they are not met by other receipts, be met by contributions from the participating hospitals.
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section—
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(a) as respects—
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(i) the year in which the establishment day falls where that day is the 1st day of January in that year, and
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(ii) a year after that in which the establishment day falls and before that in which the transfer day falls,
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a hospital board shall pay to the Council such sum as bears to the expenses of the Council for the year the same proportion as the number of hospital beds available for patients in the hospital on the 1st day of January in the year bears to the total number of hospital beds available for patients in the participating hospitals on that 1st day of January,
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(b) as respects the period beginning on the establishment day, where that day is not a 1st day of January, and ending on the 31st day of December in the year in which the establishment day falls—a hospital board shall pay to the Council such sum as bears to the expenses of the Council for the period the same proportion as the number of hospital beds available for patients in the hospital on the establishment day bears to the total number of hospital beds available for patients in the participating hospitals on that day,
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(c) as respects the period beginning on the 1st day of January in the year in which the transfer day falls, where that day is not that 1st day of January, and ending on the transfer day—a hospital board shall pay to the Council such sum as bears to the expenses of the Council for the period the same proportion as the number of hospital beds available for patients in the hospital on that 1st day of January bears to the total number of hospital beds available for patients in the participating hospitals on that 1st day of January.
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