40For subsection (6) of section 87 of the National Health Service Act 1977 there shall be substituted—
“(6)Sections 238 and 239 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (use and development of consecrated land and burial grounds) shall apply to consecrated land or, as the case may be, land comprised in a burial ground (within the meaning of section 240 of that Act) which—
(a)the Secretary of State holds for the purposes of the health service, and
(b)has not been the subject of a relevant acquisition (within the meaning of that section) by the Secretary of State,
as if that land had been the subject of such an acquisition by him for those purposes.”.