Glossary

SGHSC: The Scottish Government Health Directorate (SGHSC)

Health Board Area: The geographic area covered by a Health Board

Holding Bodies: Bodies covered by the Handbook holding property on behalf of the Scottish Ministers i.e. territorial and special Health Boards

Mandatory Requirements: The mandatory requirements on property transactions with which all Holding Bodies must comply

Accountable Officer: The Director General Health and Wellbeing and Chief Executive of NHSScotland

Property: Covers rights in land, buildings, houses and any other heritable property within the control of the Holding Body and includes temporary buildings which have service connections with a permanent building

Essential Property: Property considered necessary for a Holding Body’s operational purposes beyond a 5-year service provision planning horizon

Non-Essential Property: Property not considered necessary for a Holding Body’s operational purposes beyond a 5-year service provision planning horizon

Surplus Property: Property that is non-essential and non-operational, or, if it is non-essential but still operational, if plans that will enable it to become non-operational are agreed, are being implemented, are expected to result in non-operational status within 18 months, and where there is no wider NHSScotland interest in the property

Excambion: An exchange of heritable property. Such an exchange may or may not involve the passing of money, depending on the value of the properties exchanged. Exchanges are often dealt with by simultaneous dispositions transferring the properties between the parties to the transaction

Property Adviser: The professionally qualified external adviser appointed by the Holding Body to assume overall responsibility for advising on the value and other non-legal aspects of a transaction Usually the marketing agents for sales

Legal Adviser: The qualified Central Legal Office Legal Adviser appointed by all NHS holding bodies http://www.clo.scot.nhs.uk/

Independent Valuer: A suitably qualified valuer appointed in addition to the property adviser in major or potentially difficult cases as defined in the Property Transactions Handbook (can be a suitably qualified private sector valuer or the District Valuer, normally appointed by competitive tender)

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