1999 No. 891
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999

Made
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 126(3) and (4) of the National Health Service Act 19771 and section 5(1) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act2 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after completion of the consultation prescribed under section 5(2) of the latter Act3, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

(2)

In this Order–

“the Order” means the Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 19914;

“the trust” means the National Health Service trust established by the Order.

Change of name of NHS trust2.

The trust shall be called the Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust instead of the Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust, and accordingly in Article 1 of the Order in the definition of “the trust”, and in Article 2 of the Order, for the word “Bath” there shall be substituted the words “Avon and Western Wiltshire”.

Additional non-executive director3.

In article 4 of the Order (directors of the trust), for “5 non-executive” there shall be substituted “6 non-executive”.

Transitional provisions4.

The change of name under this Order shall not–

(a)

affect any right or obligation of any person; or

(b)

be taken as invalidating any instrument (whether made before, on or after the day on which this Order comes into force) which refers to the trust by its previous name, and all instruments and other documents which refer to the trust under its previous name shall be construed as referring to it under its new name.

Frank Dobson
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order changes the name of an NHS trust established by Order under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 from the Bath Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust to the Avon and Western Wiltshire Mental Health Care National Health Service Trust, and makes transitional provisions consequential to that change of name.

The Order also amends the constitution of the NHS trust by increasing the number of non-executive directors from 5 to 6.