Appendix 5:  Sample certificate for externally financed development agreements

…………………………………………………. Health Board
…………………………………………………. PPP Project

Certificate Issued in Terms of Section 1 of the National Health Service (Private Finance) Act 1997 as amended by the NHS Reform (Scotland) Act 2004

I, [         ], Director of Finance, Scottish Government Health Directorates, hereby certify that the [          ] documents set out in the schedule to this certificate comprise, and each of them respectively comprises, an externally financed development agreement for the purposes of Section 1 of the National Health Service (Private Finance) Act 1997 as amended by section 11 and schedule 1 of the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 and, accordingly, …………………………… Health Board is authorised to enter into each of them.