Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes NHS Foundation Trusts Section 63: Accounts, annual reports, and forward plans
This section amends section 43 of and paragraph 27 of Schedule 7 to the NHS Act 2006 and sections 155 and 156 of the 2012 Act.
	Section 155 of the 2012 Act contains a number of prospective amendments to paragraphs 24 and 25 of Schedule 7 to the NHS Act 2006. Section 155 was never brought into force; it looked to substitute the regulator for the Secretary of State in relation to directions to Foundation Trust as to form and content of their accounts. To allow for greater flexibility on how accounts are to be prepared, those provisions are repealed through paragraph (2)(a). As a consequence of the need for greater flexibility in the preparation of accounts, sections 43(3B) and (3C) of the NHS Act 2006, which contain provisions relating to the content of Foundations Trust’s forward plan, and paragraphs 27(2) and (3) of Schedule 7 to the NHS Act 2006, which contains further provisions relating to a Foundation Trust’s forward plan, are to be repealed though section 54(1) of this Act.