The Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1133

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002

Made

24th March 2002

Coming into force

1st April 2002

The Secretary of State for Health, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16A(1), (2) and (3) and 126(3) and (4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, following compliance with the consultation requirements contained in regulations made under section 16A(5) of the Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

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

“Principal Order” means the Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2001(3);

“the trust” means the Primary Care Trust established by the Principal Order.

Change of name of Primary Care trust and transitional provisions

2.—(1) The trust shall be called the South Sefton Primary Care Trust instead of the Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust, and accordingly in article 1 of the Principal Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in article 2 of the Principal Order, for “Bootle and Litherland” there shall be substituted “South Sefton”.

(2) The change of name effected by paragraph (1) 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.

Amendment of Schedule to the Principal Order

3.  For the Schedule to the Principal Order, there is substituted the following Schedule:—

Article 3

“SCHEDULE AREA OF TRUST

In the Borough of Sefton—

The Electoral Wards of—

• Blundellsands, Church, Derby, Ford, Linacre, Litherland, Manor, Molyneux, Netherton and Orrell, Park, St. Oswald, Sudell, Victoria.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Hunt

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

24th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Establishment Order of the Bootle and Litherland Primary Care Trust, a Primary Care Trust established by Order under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977, by changing its name to South Sefton Primary Care Trust and substitutes a new Schedule for the Schedule to the Principal Order, to enlarge the area of the trust.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 2(1); section 126(4) was amended by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 65(2) and by the 1999 Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 37(6); Schedule 5A was inserted by the 1999 Act, Schedule 1. The functions of the Secretary of State under these provisions are, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2(a) of, and the entry for the National Health Service Act 1977 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999, S.I. 1999/672, as amended by section 66(5) of the 1999 Act.

(2)

See S.I. 1999/2337.

(3)

S.I. 2001/437.