(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes the North Bristol National Health Service Trust, an NHS trust provided for in section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. It also provides for the functions of the trust (article 3), the number of executive and non-executive directors (article 4) and that one of the non-executive directors shall be appointed from the University of Bristol (article 5). It specifies the operational date (the date on which the trust assumes all its functions) and the accounting date of the trust (article 6), and the limited functions that the new trust may carry out between its establishment and operational dates (article 7), and makes provision for assistance to be given by Avon Health Authority between those dates (article 8). Finally, it specifies the value of assets in excess of which the Secretary of State is to consider the disposal of the assets (article 9).
This Order should be read in conjunction with The Frenchay Healthcare and the Southmead Health Services National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 1999(1).
S.I. 1999/626.