23 The NHS Commissioning Board: further provision

Further provision about the Board

23  The NHS Commissioning Board: further provision

(1)     In Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (health service bodies), before Chapter 1 insert—

“Chapter A1
The National Health Service Commissioning Board
Secretary of State's mandate to the Board
13A Mandate to Board

(1)     Before the start of each financial year, the Secretary of State must publish and lay before Parliament a document to be known as “the mandate”.

(2)     The Secretary of State must specify in the mandate—

(a)     the objectives that the Secretary of State considers the Board should seek to achieve in the exercise of its functions during that financial year and such subsequent financial years as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, and

(b)     any requirements that the Secretary of State considers it necessary to impose on the Board for the purpose of ensuring that it achieves those objectives.

(3)     The Secretary of State must also specify in the mandate the amounts that the Secretary of State has decided to specify in relation to the financial year for the purposes of section 223D(2) and (3) (limits on capital and revenue resource use).

(4)     The Secretary of State may

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