The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Amendment Order 2007

Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1268

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND

The Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Amendment Order 2007

Made

19th April 2007

Coming into force

1st May 2007

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 18(2), 272(7) and (8) and 273(1) of, and paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 3 to, the National Health Service Act 2006(1).

In accordance with section 18(5) of that Act, the prescribed consultation has been completed(2).

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Amendment Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1^st May 2007.

(2) In this Order, “the Order” means the Primary Care Trusts (Establishment and Dissolution) (England) Order 2006(3).

Change of name of Primary Care Trusts

2.—(1) In Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to the Order, in each place where the name of a Primary Care Trust listed in the Schedule appears, before “Primary Care Trust” insert “Teaching”.

(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 or on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the Primary Care Trust by its previous name,

and all instruments and other documents which refer to the Primary Care Trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hunt

Minister of State

Department of Health

19th April 2007

Article2

SCHEDULE PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS SUBJECT TO A CHANGE OF NAME

Name of Primary Care Trust
Bradford and Airedale Primary Care Trust East Lancashire Primary Care Trust
Hull Primary Care Trust
Lincolnshire Primary Care Trust
Northamptonshire Primary Care Trust
Nottinghamshire County Primary Care Trust

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the names of the Primary Care Trusts listed in the Schedule to include the word “Teaching” in their title.

(1)

2006 (c.41).

(2)

See S.I. 1999/2337, as amended by S.I. 2001/3788, S.I. 2002/880, S.I. 2002/2469, S.I. 2004/696, S.I. 2004/865, S.I. 2004/1771, S.I. 2005/848 and S.I. 2006/562

(3)

S.I. 2006/2072.