Title, Commencement and Interpretation
1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Local Health Boards (Transfer of Staff, Property, Rights and Liabilities) (Wales) Order 2009 and it comes into force on 1 October 2009.
(2) In this Order;
“new Board” (“Bwrdd newydd”) means those Local Health Boards listed in column 2 of the Schedule.
“old Board” (“hen Fwrdd”) means those Local Health Boards listed in column 1 of the Schedule;
“relevant new Board” (“Bwrdd newydd perthnasol”) means in relation to an old Board specified in column 1 of the Schedule, the new Board which is specified in column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that old Board
“transfer date” (“dyddiad trosglwyddo”) means the 1 October 2009;
Transfer of employees to the transferee
2. Any person who immediately before the transfer date, was employed by an old Board is transferred to the relevant new Board on the transfer date.
Transfer of property, rights and liabilities
3. On the transfer date all the property and, in so far as not referred to in article 2, the rights and liabilities of an old Board are transferred to the relevant new Board, including without limitation the duty to prepare the outstanding accounts of the old Board and to perform all statutory duties relating to those accounts.
Edwina Hart
Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers
24 June 2009