The National Health Service Supplies Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 603

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The National Health Service Supplies Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2000

Made

7th March 2000

Laid before Parliament

8th March 2000

Coming into force

1st April 2000

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 11(4)(c) and 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement, interpretation and extent

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the National Health Service Supplies Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Amendment Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

(2) In this Order—

“the Authority” means the National Health Service Supplies Authority;

“the Order” means the National Health Service Supplies Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1991(2).

(3) This order extends to England and Wales.

Change of name of the Authority

2.  The Authority shall be called the National Health Service Logistics Authority instead of the National Health Service Supplies Authority and, accordingly, in article 2 of the Order for the word “Supplies” there is substituted the word “Logistics”.

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 Authority by its previous name; and all instruments and other documents which refer to the Authority 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

Hunt

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

7th March 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of the National Health Service Supplies Authority, a Special Health Authority established under section 11 of the National Health Authority Act 1977, to the National Health Service Logistics Authority. It also makes transitional provision.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 11 was amended by the Health Services Act 1980 (c. 53). Schedule 1, paragraph 31 by the National Health Service and Community Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), Schedule 10, by the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”), Schedule 1, paragraph 2 and by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”) Schedule 4, p aragraph 6; section 126(3) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2) and by the 1995 Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 57; section 126(4) was amended by the 1990 Act, section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4 paragraph 37(6). Functions exercisable in relation to a cross-border body which by their nature cannot specifically be exercised in relation t o Wales are exercisable concurrently with the Secretary of State—see article 2(c) of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672.

(2)

See S.I. 1991/2001.