The Nevill Hall and District National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2605

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

WALES

The Nevill Hall and District National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997

Made

23rd October 1997

Coming into force

28th November 1997

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 126(3) 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 and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Nevill Hall and District National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 28th November 1997.

Amendment of Establishment Order

2.  For Article 3 of the Nevill Hall and District National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1993(3) there shall be substituted the following Article:—

“Nature and functions of the trust

3.— (1) The trust is established for the purposes specified in section 5(1) of the Act.

(2) The trust’s functions shall be—

(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b) below, to own and manage under section 5(1)(a) of the Act hospital accommodation and services provided at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, NP7 7EG and associated hospitals;

(b) to provide and manage under section 5(1)(b) of the Act hospital accommodation and services at the Day Surgery/Endoscopy Unit, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, NP7 7EG; and

(c) to manage under section 5(1)(a) of the Act community health services provided from Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, NP7 7EG and to own the associated premises.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

23rd October 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Order which established The Nevill Hall and District National Health Service Trust to alter the purpose for which the trust has been established and to amend its functions.

The Order confers on the trust the purpose specified in section 5(1)(b) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 and, in pursuance of that purpose, extends the functions of the trust to include the function of providing and managing hospital accommodation and services at the Day Surgery/Endoscopy Unit, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny.

(1)

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

(2)

1990 c. 19.

(3)

S.I. 1993/2840.