The Local Health Boards (Transfer of Staff, Property, Rights and Liabilities) (Wales) Order 2009

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 1559 (W.154)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The Local Health Boards (Transfer of Staff, Property, Rights and Liabilities) (Wales) Order 2009

Made

24 June 2009

Coming into force

1 October 2009

The Welsh Ministers in exercise of powers conferred on them by sections 11, 203(9) and (10) of and paragraphs 21 and 24 of Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006(1) make this Order.

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

Article 1(2)

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2
Old Board(2)	New Board(3)
Anglesey Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Blaenau Gwent Local Health Board	Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Bridgend Local Health Board	Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board
Caerphilly Teaching Local Health Board	Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Cardiff Local Health Board	Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board
Carmarthenshire Local Health Board	Hywel Dda Local Health Board
Ceredigion Local Health Board	Hywel Dda Local Health Board
Conwy Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Denbighshire Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Flintshire Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Gwynedd Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil Local Health Board	Cwm Taf Local Health Board
Monmouthshire Local Health Board	Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Neath Port Talbot Local Health Board	Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board
Newport Local Health Board	Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Pembrokeshire Local Health Board	Hywel Dda Local Health Board
Rhondda Cynon Taff Teaching Local Health Board	Cwm Taf Local Health Board
Swansea Local Health Board	Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Local Health Board
Torfaen Local Health Board	Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board
Vale of Glamorgan Local Health Board	Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board
Wrexham Local Health Board	Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for the transfer on 1 October 2009 of staff, property, rights and liabilities from the Local Health Boards dissolved by the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009 ( S.I. 2009/ 778 (W.66)) to the new Local Health Boards established on 1 June 2009 by that Order.

(1)

2006 c. 42.

(2)

Established by virtue of the Local Health Boards (Establishment) (Wales) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/148 (W. 18)).

(3)

Established by virtue of the Local Health Boards (Establishment and Dissolution) (Wales) Order 2009 ( S.I. 2009/ 778 (W. 66)).