The Bexley Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2168

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Bexley Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003

Made

20th August 2003

Coming into force

1st October 2003

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 16A(1) and (2) and 126(3) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) and section 45 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Change of Name) and (Establishment) Amendment Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

(2) In this Order—

“the Establishment Order” means the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000(3); and

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

Change of name of the trust

2.  The trust shall be called the Bexley Care Trust instead of the Bexley Primary Care Trust, and accordingly—

(a) in article 1(2) of the Establishment Order (citation, commencement and interpretation), in the definition of “the trust”; and

(b) in article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust),

• “Bexley Primary Care Trust” shall be replaced by “Bexley Care Trust”.

3.  The change of name effected by article 2 of 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.

Designation as a Care Trust

4.  In article 2 of the Establishment Order (establishment and name of the Primary Care Trust) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2) The trust is designated as a Care Trust.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Stephen Ladyman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department of Health

20th August 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Bexley Primary Care Trust (Establishment) Order 2000, which established the Bexley Primary Care Trust.

Article 2 of the Order changes the name of the trust from the Bexley Primary Care Trust to the Bexley Care Trust, and makes consequential amendments to the Establishment Order. Article 4 designates the trust as a Care Trust, as provided for in section 45 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001.

(1)

1977 c. 49; section 16A was inserted by section 2(1) of the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”), section 16A(1) was substituted for section 16A(1) as originally enacted by sections 2(1) and (2) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c. 17); section 126(3) was amended by section 65(2) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), paragraph 57 of Schedule 1 to the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17) and section 41(10) of, and paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c. 46), paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A was inserted by section 2(2) of the 1999 Act. 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 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)

2001 c. 15.

(3)

S.I. 2000/1962 as amended by S.I. 2002/1405 (to remove article 4).