This Scottish Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.S.I. 1999/100 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Scottish Statutory Instrument

1999 No. 197

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1999

Made

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 12A(1) and (4) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3(1)(b) and (c) of Schedule 7A to, the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19781 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 8th October 1999.

2

In this Order “the principal Order” means the Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 19982.

Amendment of the principal Order2

1

For article 3 of the principal Order there is substituted–

Nature and functions of the trust3

1

The trust is established for the purpose specified in section 12A(1) of the Act.

2

The trust’s functions shall be to provide goods and services for the purpose of the Health Service at, from or through hospital accommodation and facilities at Ayr Hospital, Ayr and Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, and at establishments associated with those hospitals, and also including the management of any teaching and research facilities associated with those establishments and the support services related thereto.

2

In article 4 of the principal Order (directors of the trust) for the words “non-executive directors” there is substituted “trustees”.

Revocation3

The Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 19993 is hereby revoked.

SUSAN DEACONA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House,Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998 (S.I.1998/2735) to substitute a new article 3 relating to the nature and functions of the trust and to amend article 4 to substitute a reference to “trustees” for the reference to “non-executive directors”. The Order also revokes the Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 (S.S.I. 1999/100), in which there was a defect.