Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 2623 (W.215)

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, WALES

The Wales Centre for Health (Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights and Liabilities and Abolition) (Wales) Order 2009

Made

28 September 2009

Coming into force

1 October 2009

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Wales Centre for Health (Transfer of Functions, Property, Rights and Liabilities and Abolition) (Wales) Order 2009 and it comes into force on 1 October 2009.

(2) This Order applies to Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

Transfer of the functions of the Wales Centre for Health to the Welsh Ministers

3.  With effect from the transfer date, all the functions of the Wales Centre for Health, as set out in section 3 of the 2003 Act, are transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

Transfer of property

4.  With effect from the transfer date, all property of the Wales Centre for Health will transfer to the Welsh Ministers, including the property listed in Schedule 1.

Enforceability of rights and transfer of liabilities

5.—(1) Any right that was immediately before the transfer date enforceable by or against the Wales Centre for Health is transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

(2) Any liability arising from the exercise of its functions that was, immediately before the transfer date, enforceable against the Wales Centre for Health is transferred to the Welsh Ministers.

Abolition of the Wales Centre for Health

6.  The Wales Centre for Health is abolished with effect from 1 October 2009.

Consequential revocation of the Wales Centre for Health (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) Regulations 2004

7.  The Wales Centre for Health (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) Regulations 2004(2) are revoked with effect from the transfer date.

Edwina Hart

Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers

28 September 2009