The Mersey Regional Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997

Statutory Instruments

1997 No. 2690

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Mersey Regional Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997

Made

11th November 1997

Coming into force

1st December 1997

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the 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, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act(3), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st December 1997.

Amendment of NHS trust Establishment Order

2.  In Article 4 of the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1991(4) for “5 non-executive” there shall be substituted “4 non-executive” and for “5 executive” there shall be substituted “4 executive”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Alan Milburn

Minister of State,

Department of Health

11th November 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the constitution of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, by reducing the numbers of non-executive directors and executive directors from 5 to 4 in each case.

(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)

See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).

(4)

S.I. 1991/2369.