Statutory Instruments
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND
Made
15th January 2001
Coming into force
26th January 2001
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health 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:
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Whipps Cross Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001 and shall come into force on 26th January 2001.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Order” means the Whipps Cross Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2000(4);
“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.
2. The trust shall be called the Whipps Cross University Hospital National Health Service Trust instead of the Whipps Cross Hospital 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, after the words “Whipps Cross” there shall be inserted the word “University”.
3. After article 4 of the Order there shall be inserted the following article—
4A.—(1) The trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment by virtue of paragraph 3(1)(d) of Schedule 2 to the Act.
(2) One of the non-executive directors of the trust shall be appointed from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.”.
4. 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 instruments and other documents 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
John Denham
Minister of State,
Department of Health
15th January 2001
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the establishment Order of the Whipps Cross Hospital National Health Service Trust (“the trust”), an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.
The Order changes the name of the trust from the Whipps Cross Hospital National Health Service Trust to the Whipps Cross University Hospital National Health Service Trust, and makes consequential amendments to that Order and transitional provisions.
The Order also amends the trust’s establishment Order by inserting a new article 4A to provide that the trust is to be regarded as having a significant teaching commitment, and that one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
1977 c. 49; section 126 was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), by paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) (“the 1995 Act”),by section 41(10) and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46) and by section 65(1) and paragraph 37 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”).
1990 c. 19; section 5 was amended by paragraph 69 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and by section 13 of the 1999 Act.
See S.I. 1996/653, regulation 2(3).