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The Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1996

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Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 539

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1996

Made

4th March 1996

Coming into force

15th March 1996

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust (Change of Name) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 15th March 1996.

(2) In this Order unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Order” means the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1990(3);

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust

2.  The trust shall be called The Royal Liverpool Children’s National Health Service Trust instead of the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Order, for the words “the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services” there shall be substituted the words “The Royal Liverpool Children's”.

Transitional provisions

3.  The change of name under this Order shall not—

(a)affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b)be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name;

and all other documents and instruments which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

John Horam

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

4th March 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital and Community Services National Health Service Trust to The Royal Liverpool Children’s National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 126(3) and (4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 65(2).

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