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Each Special Health Authority must, in respect of each financial year, perform its functions so as to secure that its expenditure which is attributable to the performance by it of its functions in that year does not exceed the aggregate of—
The Secretary of State may give such directions to a ... Special Health Authority as appear to be requisite to secure that the Authority complies with the duty under subsection (2).
To the extent to which—
that expenditure and, subject to subsection (6), those sums, must be disregarded for the purposes of this section.
For the purposes of this section sums which, in the hands of a ... Special Health Authority, cease to be trust funds and become applicable by the Authority otherwise than as trustee must be treated, on their becoming so applicable, as having been received by the Authority otherwise than as trustee.
Of the sums received by a ... Special Health Authority under section 222, so much only as accrues to the Authority after defraying any expenses incurred in obtaining them must be disregarded under subsection (4).
Subject to subsection (4), the Secretary of State may by directions determine—
but not yet spent must be treated for the purposes of this section as part of the expenditure of the ... Special Health Authority and to which financial year's expenditure they must be attributed.
"Specified" means of a description specified in the directions.