(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order establishes on 1st April 1999 the Southport & Ormskirk Hospital National Health Service Trust (“the new 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 new trust (article 3). It specifies the number of executive and non-executive directors of the new trust (article 4), its operational date (the date on which the new trust assumes all its functions) and its accounting date (article 5), and the value above which assets cannot be disposed of without the Secretary of State’s consent (article 6).
The new trust replaces the Southport and Formby Community Health Services and the West Lancashire National Health Service Trusts and this Order should be read in conjunction with The Southport and Formby, the Southport and Formby Community Health Services and the West Lancashire National Health Service Trusts (Dissolution) Order 19994.