The Borders and Dumfries and Galloway National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2003

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 189

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

The Borders and Dumfries and Galloway National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2003

Made

13th March 2003

Coming into force

1st April 2003

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12A(1) and 105(6) of and paragraph 25(1) of Schedule 7A to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having received an application(2) from each of the National Health Service Trusts specified in Schedule 1 to this Order, and after completion of the consultation prescribed(3) under paragraph 25(3) of the said Schedule 7A, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2003.

Dissolution of NHS Trusts

2.  The National Health Service Trusts specified in Schedule 1 to this Order are hereby dissolved.

Revocation

3.  The Orders specified in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked.

MALCOLM CHISHOLM

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

13th March 2003

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 DISSOLUTION OF NHS TRUSTS

• The Borders General Hospital National Health Service Trust

• Borders Primary Care National Health Service Trust

• The Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals National Health Service Trust

• Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care National Health Service Trust

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2 REVOCATIONS

Orders revoked	References
The Borders General Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1994	S.I. 1994/2998; amended by S.S.I. 2000/353 and 2001/341
The Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment ) Order 1993	S.I. 1993/2934; amended by S.S.I. 2000/354 and 2001/345
The Borders Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998	S.I. 1998/2709; amended by S.S.I. 1999/92 and 2001/344
The Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 1998	S.I. 1998/2714; amended by S.S.I. 1999/96 and S.S.I. 2001/343
The Borders Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999	S.S.I. 1999/92
The Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999	S.S.I. 1999/96
The Borders General Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000	S.S.I. 2000/353
The Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2000	S.S.I. 2000/354
The Borders General Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001	S.S.I 2001/341
The Dumfries and Galloway Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001	S.S.I. 2001/343
The Borders Primary Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001	S.S.I. 2001/344
The Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2001	S.S.I. 2001/345

Explanatory Note

(This is not part of the Order)

This Order provides by article 2 for the dissolution on 1st April 2003 of the four National Health Service Trusts detailed in Schedule 1 and as a consequence of that revokes the Orders establishing those Trusts and Orders amending those establishment Orders which are detailed in Schedule 2.

(1)

1978 c. 29; section 12A(1) was inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19) (“the 1990 Act”), section 31 and extended and amended by the Health Act 1999 (c. 8), section 46; Schedule 7A was inserted by the 1990 Act, Schedule 6.

(2)

See paragraph 25(2)(a) of Schedule 7A to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.

(3)

See S.I. 1993/3057.