Commentary on provisions of Act Section 1: Removal of Secretary of State’s powers to appoint trustees
Subsection (1) repeals the Secretary of State’s power to appoint special trustees in England and trustees to certain NHS bodies in England that can hold charitable property. Those bodies are NHS foundation trusts, the NHS Commissioning Board (informally known as NHS England), clinical commissioning groups, and special health authorities. Legislation already provides for the repeal of the power of the Secretary of State to, by order, appoint trustees for NHS trusts (section 179(2) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012). This repeal has not yet been commenced (but will be commenced at the same time as the repeals of the Secretary of State’s powers to appoint trustees to the NHS bodies covered by this Act are commenced).
	Subsection (2) confers on the Secretary of State a power to make regulations to make provision in consequence of the repeal of the appointment of trustee powers.
	Subsections (3) to (7) sets out the general provisions about the powers to make regulations under subsection (2) and the Parliamentary procedures that apply to such regulations.